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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
~ Raymond Queneau
Concerns
Creation
Great
Iliad
Nation
Very
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After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
~ Raymond Queneau
Accomplished
Act
After
Away
Getting
Joyce
Magical
Perhaps
Ulysses
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All confessions are Odysseys.
~ Raymond Queneau
Confessions
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All societies are historical.
~ Raymond Queneau
Historical
Societies
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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.
~ Raymond Queneau
Characters
Either
Fiction
General
Having
Historical
Iliad
Imaginary
Individual
Odyssey
Placing
Presenting
Story
True
True Story
Value
Which
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
~ Raymond Queneau
Anyone
Discovered
Iliad
Me
Much
New
Odyssey
Seem
Since
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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.
~ Raymond Queneau
Character
Convince
Creator
Fiction
He
Him
History
Interesting
Interests
Point
Reader
Sometimes
Story
Telling
Universal
View
Wants
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It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
~ Raymond Queneau
Author
Determined
Gertrude Stein
Literature
Me
New
Seems
Very
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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.
~ Raymond Queneau
Characters
Context
Everything
Historical
Important
Interest
Many
Mediocre
Novelists
Place
Precise
Remains
Secondary
Sometimes
Spite
Stories
Take
Them
Which
Whose
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
~ Raymond Queneau
Classify
Descendants
Easily
Either
Fiction
Iliad
Odyssey
Works
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
~ Raymond Queneau
Disappear
Fortune
Good
Good Fortune
Man
Religions
Tend
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
~ Raymond Queneau
Disorder
History
Iliad
Lives
People
Private
Private Lives
Thrown
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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
American
Detached
Even
Historical
Odyssey
Point
Side
Story
Up
Where
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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
Course
Diverse
Experiences
His
Odyssey
Personality
Someone
Story
Who
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
~ Raymond Queneau
Able
Been
Course
Histories
History
Individual
Moments
Only
Rare
Revolutions
Run
Wars
Were
Where
Without
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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.
~ Raymond Queneau
Being
Character
Hero
Himself
Know
Own
Party
Question
Refinement
Story
Technical
Third
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
~ Raymond Queneau
Aside
End
Experience
Finds
Himself
His
Odyssey
Ulysses
Unchanged
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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
Aspect
Away
Back
Character
Double
Either
Event
Events
Gotten
His
Historical
Life
Making
Putting
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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
Any
Astonishing
Continue
Epic
He
Hears
His
Identity
Interested
Longer
Own
Poet
Reveals
Singing
Story
Sung
Then
Ulysses
Very
Wants
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Raymond Queneau
Profession
Poet
BirthDate
21 February, 1903
DeathDate
25 October, 1976
Country
French Southern Territories
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