"After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it"
- Raymond Queneau
About this Quote
This quote by Raymond Queneau is referring to the unique Ulysses by James Joyce. Queneau is recommending that Joyce's work was so advanced and groundbreaking that it has set a new requirement for literature. He is indicating that, after Joyce's achievement with Ulysses, it is difficult for other authors to measure up. Queneau is suggesting that authors are now attempting to move far from the level of complexity and development that Joyce achieved with Ulysses. He is indicating that authors are now looking for new ways to express themselves and produce brand-new forms of literature. Queneau is suggesting that Joyce's work has had a long lasting effect on literature and that authors are now trying to find brand-new methods to express themselves and create new forms of literature. He is implying that Joyce's work has set a new requirement for literature which authors are now attempting to move far from it in order to create something brand-new and distinct.
This quote is written / told by Raymond Queneau between February 21, 1903 and October 25, 1976. He/she was a famous Poet from France.
The author also have 18 other quotes.
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"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"
"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"
"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"
