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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| Birth: | 21st February, 1903 |
| Death: | 25th October, 1976 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
About
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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