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"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."
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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
"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."
"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 isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
"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."
"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
"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."
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
"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."
"To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement."
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