Raymond Queneau

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#boring #imagination #imagination

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#act #after #away #getting #joyce

All confessions are Odysseys. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

All societies are historical. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#societies

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#discovered #iliad #me #much #new

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

#convince #creator #fiction #him #history

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#determined #domains #gertrude #gertrude stein #literature

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

— Raymond Queneau

#descendants #easily #either #fiction #iliad

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#fortune #good #good fortune #man #religions

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#creation #great #iliad #nation #very