The article examines, centrally, the possibilities of the testimonial account, memory and experience for history and historiographical studies. Faced with this general objective, the work assumes a theoretical-critical-philosophical perspective that seeks to contrast and delve into those most relevant proposals, ideas or  conceptualizations that have guided the path of the aforementioned debates to, finally, propose a rereading of the testimony and the historical account (as a trace that becomes a map) based on the deleuzoguattarian theoretical proposals that appeared in A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The five sub-themes that make up the study are the following: “The belief in historical representation”; “Poetic configuration of the real past”; “Memory as the matrix of history”; “The privilege of memory against the pact of truth” and “The testim...