Raymond Queneau Quotes
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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.
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
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.
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.
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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.
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.