“The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.” StoriesWrittenModernLove StoryPoignantModern Love Author:Raymond Queneau
“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.” CharacterStoriesValuesIndividualFictionHistoricalImaginaryPresentingTrue StoryOdysseyIliadHistorical Value Author:Raymond Queneau
“True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.” StoriesDealsHungerImaginaryTrue Story Author:Raymond Queneau
“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.” WantStoriesIdentityPoetSingingEpicAstonishingUlysses Author:Raymond Queneau
“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.” WantSometimesCharacterStoriesInterestInterestingViewsFictionReaderUniversalCreatorPoint Of ViewConvince Author:Raymond Queneau
“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.” WellsImportantSometimesCharacterStoriesInterestRemainsHistoricalDefinedNovelistsSpitePreciseMediocreHistorical Context Author: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.” WellsStoriesSidesHistoricalDetachedOdyssey Author:Raymond Queneau
“The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.” StoriesCoursesPersonalityAcquireDiverseOdyssey Author:Raymond Queneau
“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.” KnowsCharacterStoriesPartyHeroThirdsRefinementThird Parties Author:Raymond Queneau
