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

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

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

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

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune

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.