Rubio's desire for a philosophic recognition of narrative is evoked as a horizon of his teaching by the author of this essay. This desire never supposed breaking the concept up; rather, Rubio always wanted to steer it to make the narrative labor explicit as a foundational way of expression, transformation and enrichment of our experience. So, entwining Rubio and Ricœur, the author holds how philosophy does not fell flat through this route; on the contrary, it takes it beyond itself and avoids it to be reduced to problems and texts; also, this way leads it to come back to the place and role it had in antiquity: the enrichment of experience itself. After a succinct exposition of Ricœurian notion of Triple mimesis, the author takes Rubio's concerns in linking narrative intelligence with practical wisdom and prudent moral judgment still present in any act of reading. Finally, the author shows how Rubio echoes conatus implicit in narrative identity, in particular and communal poetic ways of life, throughout his reading and teaching of Ricœur.