Raymond Queneau

'Raymond Queneau' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Queneau, Raymond Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Politically InKorect

  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Stilske vjezbe

  2001, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Les sables

  1995, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Le vol d'Icare

  1980, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Pierrot mon ami

  1979, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Le dimanche de la vie

  1967, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Le désordre à vingt ans

  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Le dimanche de la vie

  1967, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Landru

  1963, role: actor , character name: Georges Clemenceau
• Play in Full Screen Loin de Rueil

  1961, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Zazie dans le métro

  1960, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Un couple

  1960, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Un couple

  1960, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Le chant du Styrène

  1959, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La mort en ce jardin

  1956, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La mort en ce jardin

  1956, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Monsieur Ripois

  1954, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Champs Élysées

  1953, role: actor , character name: Commentary
• Play in Full Screen Champs Élysées

  1953, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Arithmétique

  1951, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Arithmétique

  1951, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Désordre

  1949, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Raymond Queneau:

"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune"

"When One made love to Zero, spheres embraced their arches and prime numbers caught their breath"

"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."

"A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation."

"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."

"It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey."

"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."

"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."

"Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey."

"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."

"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."

"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it."

"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."

"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."

"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."

"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."

"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."

"All confessions are Odysseys."

"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."

"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."

Raymond Queneau

Born: 1903-02-21

Died: 1976-10-25