"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."

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"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."

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"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."

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"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."

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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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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."

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"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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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

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