It doesn’t seem to me that anyone has discovered much that’s new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. Raymond Queneau Read Quote
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. Raymond Queneau Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau Read Quote
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Raymond Queneau Read Quote
It is the creator of fiction’s 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 Read Quote
