It Isn’t Happiness I Am Concerned With

Religions Tend To Disappear With Man's Good Fortune.

Happy Nations Have No History. History Is The Study Of Mankind's Misfortune.

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.

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

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.