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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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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.
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After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
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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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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
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It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.
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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.
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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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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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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.
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
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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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