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(6 votes)   Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   In the Odyssey, there are technical refinements which are extremely remarkable, and I'm surprised they aren't mentioned more often.

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(4 votes)   Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

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(2 votes)   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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(12 votes)   All confessions are Odysseys.

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(8 votes)   A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

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(8 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(6 votes)   One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

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(5 votes)   All societies are historical.

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(4 votes)   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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(4 votes)   We think of giving importance to history, but it is the individual who is interesting, and we want to give him a historical importance.

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(3 votes)   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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(5 votes)   It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

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