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
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.
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
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.
people iliad disorder
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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.
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.
epic singing identity
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
fall inspiration waiting
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity...