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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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
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.
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