Character Quotes by Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau

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

Fiction

Historical Value

Raymond Queneau

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

Interesting

Views

Raymond Queneau

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

Historical

Important

Raymond Queneau

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

Hero

Party

Raymond Queneau

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.

Character

Events

Historical

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Ascending

Character

Concerned

Confession

Creation

Culture

Disappear

Disorder

Doe

Dream

Education

Ends

Epic

Events

Fall

Fiction

Hero

Historical

Historical Value

Hunger

Ideas

Identity

Iliad

Important

Inspiration

Interesting

Knowledge Learning

Love Story

Men

Modern

Odyssey

Party

People

Personality

Rare Moments

Rehabilitation

Religion

Running

Seems

Sides

Singing

Stories

Study

True Story

Ulysses

Views

Waiting

War

Wisdom

Work

Character Quotes by Raymond Queneau

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Maurice Clarett

Terry Eagleton

Sarah Waters

Heath L’Estrange

Henry Miller

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