Abstract
The events of May 1968 in France are controversial both in public discussions and in the scientific literature. The article analyzes key publications in foreign literature devoted to the analysis of the conflict of narratives about the May protests in order to systematize the idea of a “conflict of memory”. The article demonstrates that already in 1968 one can see the lack of a common perception of the protests and the narratives about the May events differed significantly. The author analyzes key publications that investigate different sides of the problem of “narrative conflict”. The analysis of the works of R. Aron, K. Reeder, K. Ross, M. Seidman and K. Reynolds concludes that the publications problematize two dimensions of the conflict: the inconsistency of memory with reality and the contradiction between different memories of May. The author concludes that it is fundamentally impossible to find a consensus on the May events not only in public discourse, but also in the scientific literature.
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