All Societies Are Historical.

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.

The Iliad Is The Private Lives Of People Thrown Into Disorder By History.

True Stories Deal With Hunger, Imaginary Ones With Love.

The Odyssey Is The Story Of Someone Who, In The Course Of Diverse Experiences, Acquires A Personality Or Affirms And Recovers His Personality.

Being Or Nothing, That Is The Question. Ascending, Descending, Coming, Going, A Man Does So Much That In The End He Disappears.