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Raymond Queneau

Date of birth: 1903-02-21

Date of death: 1976-10-25

Quotes number: 19

Nationality: French

Profession: Poet

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

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