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.
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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
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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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.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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