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Raymond Queneau
French
Poet
Born:
Feb 21
,
1903
Died:
Oct 25
,
1976
Character
Characters
Himself
Historical
History
Iliad
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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.
Raymond Queneau
Life
Character
Events
Back
Putting
Making
Gotten
His
Historical
Very
Either
Double
Aspect
Event
Away
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
Raymond Queneau
Personality
Someone
Diverse
Recovers
Course
His
Odyssey
Experiences
Story
Who
Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
Raymond Queneau
Good
Man
Religions
Tend
Disappear
Fortune
Good Fortune
All confessions are Odysseys.
Raymond Queneau
Confessions
All societies are historical.
Raymond Queneau
Historical
Societies
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
Raymond Queneau
History
People
Thrown
Private
Private Lives
Disorder
Iliad
Lives
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.
Raymond Queneau
Side
Detached
Point
Odyssey
Historical
Up
American
Where
Story
Even
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
Raymond Queneau
History
Rare
Run
Able
Only
Individual
Course
Without
Were
Been
Histories
Revolutions
Where
Wars
Moments
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
Experience
Finds
Unchanged
Himself
His
Odyssey
Ulysses
End
Aside
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.
Raymond Queneau
Poet
Singing
Own
Astonishing
Sung
He
Longer
Identity
Reveals
Continue
His
Hears
Ulysses
Very
Any
Wants
Story
Interested
Epic
Then
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