There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
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. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing,… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Spiders’ teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
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… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
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… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
