After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
Raymond Queneau Quotes
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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| Birth: | 21st February, 1903 |
| Death: | 25th October, 1976 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
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Raymond Queneau was a French novelist, poet and the co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle. Born in Le Havre, Seine-Maritime, Queneau was the only child of Auguste Queneau and Joséphine Mignot. He received his first baccalauréat in 1919 for Latin and Greek, and a second in 1920 for philosophy, then studied at the Sorbonne where he was a fair student of both letters and mathematics, graduating with certificates in philosophy and psychology.
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