"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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"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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"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."

Literature,

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

Act,

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

History, People, Disorder

"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."

Interest,

"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."

Fiction, Value

"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."

Character, Being, Party, Question

"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."

Identity, Singing

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

Experience, End

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

Fiction,

"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."

Life, Character, Events

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