One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. 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 ascending doe men Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream. Raymond Queneau dream work men 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-learning education ideas True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. Raymond Queneau true-story hunger stories Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune. Raymond Queneau disappear men religion The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. Raymond Queneau iliad disorder people 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 party hero character 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 historical important character Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. Raymond Queneau study wisdom culture The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. Raymond Queneau modern love-story stories There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. Raymond Queneau rare-moments running war Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. Raymond Queneau odyssey ulysses ends 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 events historical character 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 odyssey personality stories 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 historical stories sides It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau odyssey iliad seems All societies are historical. Raymond Queneau historical All confessions are Odysseys. Raymond Queneau odyssey confession 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 views character interesting
