Man's Usual Routine Is To Work And

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.

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

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.

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.

All Confessions Are Odysseys.