Raymond Queneau

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

#even #historical #odyssey #point #side

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

#affirms #course #diverse #experiences #his

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#been #course #histories #history #individual

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

#character #hero #himself #know #own

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#end #experience #finds #himself #his

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

#away #back #character #double #either

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

#astonishing #continue #epic #hears #his

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#history #iliad #into #lives #people