All confessions are Odysseys.
All confessions are Odysseys. Raymond Queneau
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All confessions are Odysseys. Raymond Queneau
A very great Iliad… concerns the creation of a nation. 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. Raymond Queneau
All societies are historical. Raymond Queneau
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. Raymond Queneau
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. Raymond Queneau
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. Raymond Queneau
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. Raymond Queneau
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. Raymond Queneau