This study seeks to approximate the works of Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault and also review Ricoeur ’s criticisms of Foucault' s philosophy, particularly Archeology of Knowledge (1969), in two of his capital works: Time and Narrative -Especially in his third volume, published in 1985- and Memory, history, forgetting (2000). The reflection is directed by the following question: What theoretical, methodological and practical differences can be established between the work of these two authors based on the position they assume about the problem of the continuity or discontinuity of history?