SUMMARY: Classical philosophy, adhering to a conception of truth as adequacy or correspondence, with the guarantee of modern subjectivity in its various variants, positioned fiction as a devalued antithesis of truth. After a reevaluation of fiction, in the last century, from utilitarian positions, we face a thesis by Paul Ricoeur, which interculturally correlates narrative activity with the temporal nature of human existence. The driving force of the analyzed work is the Aristotelian notion of mimesis, expressed in three dimensions: I) practical prefiguration around daily life II) textual configuration and III) receptive refiguration through reading. Mimesis II, which opens the way to the "as if", operates as a mediation between the world of life - mimesis I - and refigurative reading - mimesis III - and is a mediation between time and narration and between narration and truth. The creation of the plot, as a mimetic fabulatory activity, is regulated in a process of schematization, in the Kantian sense, since it subsumes the particular factors into a whole - sensitive and intelligible - under the parameters of time. Fiction and truth then relate freely under the narrative eid, without submission to a founding consciousness, moving through a narrative identity, which is not a formal self, nor an indeterminate change, in the style of Hume or Nietzsche, but an ipseity . , which goes from life to text and from text to reading, in a relationship of immanence and transcendence. In its etymological reference, the term fiction refers to two main meanings: a) model, form, model and b) simulate, pretend. (poetic fiction). The two meanings are linked to a third: imagine. It is legitimate to place fiction in the realm of the unreal, but furthermore, classical philosophy and thought have placed fiction and truth as antithetical, understanding the latter as an adaptation or correspondence to a reality in itself. In this sense, fiction was relegated to mere imagery or literary lies. The status of fiction began to change, when at the beginning of the 19th century, Jeremy Benthan, representative of English utilitarianism, appealed to the insufficiency of definitions of gender and difference. it turns to fictions. This author says that real entities are linked to reality through simple concepts, while fictitious ones indirectly designate real entities..