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 Copy Share Image
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. Raymond Queneau After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. Raymond Queneau All confessions are Odysseys. Raymond Queneau All societies are historical.… — 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
