Raymond Queneau Quotes

French - Poet | February 21, 1903 - October 25, 1976

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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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

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

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All confessions are Odysseys.

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All societies are historical.

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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

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

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

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

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