Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneau
Raymond Queneauwas a French novelist, poet, and co-founder of Oulipo, notable for his wit and cynical humour...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 February 1903
CountryFrance
stories hunger true-story
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
wisdom culture study
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
odyssey confession
All confessions are Odysseys.
historical
All societies are historical.
education ideas knowledge-learning
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.
concerned
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
character historical events
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.
odyssey ulysses ends
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
hero party character
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.
running war rare-moments
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
personality stories odyssey
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
historical sides 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.
odyssey iliad seems
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
stories love-story modern
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.