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.

In Queneau's mind elements of a text including seemingly trivial details such as the number of chapters were things that had to be predetermined perhaps calculated. He became a member of la Société Mathématique de France in 1948. Additionally he edited and publiRaymond Queneaud Alexandre Kojève's lectures on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.