Raymond Queneau Quotes

All Confessions Are Odysseys.

A Very Great Iliad... Concerns The Creation Of A Nation.

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.

The Odyssey Is The Story Of Someone Who, In The Course Of Diverse Experiences, Acquires A Personality Or Affirms And Recovers His Personality.

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.

One Can Easily Classify All Works Of Fiction Either As Descendants Of The Iliad Or Of The Odyssey.

The Iliad Is The Private Lives Of People Thrown Into Disorder By History.

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.

All Societies Are Historical.

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.

There Have Been Only Rare Moments In History Where Individual Histories Were Able To Run Their Course Without Wars Or Revolutions.

Ulysses Finds Himself Unchanged, Aside From His Experience, At The End Of His Odyssey.