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Raymond Queneau Quotes
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
All confessions are Odysseys. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
All societies are historical. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and Im surprised they arent mentioned more often. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
It doesnt seem to me that anyone has discovered much thats new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
It is the creator of fictions point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
Religions tend to disappear with mans good fortune. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
To have ones own story told by a third party who doesnt know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, thats a technical refinement. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
We think of giving importance to history, but it is the individual who is interesting, and we want to give him a historical importance. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isnt interested any longer. Thats very astonishing. - Raymond Queneau Quotes
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