Raymond Queneau Quotes

He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.

imagination adventure find boring

Toute grande oeuvre est soit une Iliade soit une Odysée, les odysées étant beaucoup plus nombreuse que les iliades: le,,,, et naturellement (où l'on reconnaît d'ailleurs l'influence directe de ) sont des odysées, c'est-? -dire des récits de temps pleins. Les iliades sont au contraire des recherches du temps perdu: devant Troie, sur une île déserte ou chez les Guermantes.

literature

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

people history

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

revolution history war

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 history

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.

character

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.

places character

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

work