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
character historical-value fiction
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.
character historical important
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.
character views interesting
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.
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.
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.
giving historical importance individual
We think of giving importance to history, but it is the individual who is interesting, and we want to give him a historical importance.
author seems
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
perhaps
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
breath caught embraced love numbers prime
When One made love to Zero, spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath
extremely mentioned surprised technical
In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and I'm surprised they aren't mentioned more often.
people iliad disorder
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
rehabilitation iliad creation
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
fiction odyssey iliad
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
men religion disappear
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.