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
perhaps
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
author seems
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
odyssey iliad seems
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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.
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.
odyssey ulysses ends
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
concerned
It isn’t happiness I am concerned with but experience.
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.
rehabilitation iliad creation
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.