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

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• Raymond Queneau:

  It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he w

• Raymond Queneau:

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

• Raymond Queneau:

  Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre inter

• Raymond Queneau:

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

• Raymond Queneau:

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

• Raymond Queneau:

  The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so

• Raymond Queneau:

  The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personali

• Raymond Queneau:

  There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their cour

• Raymond Queneau:

  To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is hi

• Raymond Queneau:

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