All societies are historical.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.Raymond Queneau
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and I'm surprised they aren't mentioned more often.
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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.
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