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Raymond Queneau

"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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"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
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"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
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"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."
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"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."
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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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"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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"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."
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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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"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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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
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