It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Raymond Queneau More Quotes by Raymond Queneau More Quotes From Raymond Queneau Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears. Raymond Queneau ascendingdoemen Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. Raymond Queneau dreamworkmen Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research. Raymond Queneau knowledge-learningeducationideas True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. Raymond Queneau true-storyhungerstories Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. Raymond Queneau disappearmenreligion The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. Raymond Queneau iliaddisorderpeople 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 partyherocharacter 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 historicalimportantcharacter Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau studywisdomculture The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. Raymond Queneau modernlove-storystories There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. Raymond Queneau rare-momentsrunningwar Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. Raymond Queneau odysseyulyssesends 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 eventshistoricalcharacter It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience. Raymond Queneau concerned 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 odysseypersonalitystories 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 historicalstoriessides It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau odysseyiliadseems All societies are historical. Raymond Queneau historical All confessions are Odysseys. Raymond Queneau odysseyconfession 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 viewscharacterinteresting
