"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."

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"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."

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

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"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."

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"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."

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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 someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."

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