Literature and Science demarcated two alternative knowledge models, which disputed their capacity to better understand the new social context that was born in the XIXth century. This work analyzes how that space in between the two discourses, between “the two cultures”, is extraordinarily creative for social sciences. In particular, sociology moved between the inspiration drawn from the model of literary narrative and the influence ofthe discourse about truth from the natural sciences.Keywords: Literature and society, science, sociology, discourse, truth.