Sergio Chejfec

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A world-spanning intellectual thriller in the vein of Sebald

The Incompletes

Heather Cleary

When he reads about a mysterious explosion in the distant countryside, the narrator's thoughts turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted from his home years ago during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early 1970s. He convinces himself that M must have died in the explosion and he begins to tell their story hoping to reanimate his lost friend and relive the time they spent together. Sergio Chejfec's The Planets is an affecting and innovative exploration of mourning, remembrance and friendship by one of Argentina's modern masters.

The Planets

Margaret B. Carson

"Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference--he was invited following the publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability to transpose the two-dimensional information of the map onto the impassable roads and dead-ends of the three-dimensional city, once he finds the park the narrator begins to see his own thoughts, reflections, and memories mirrored in the landscape of the park and its inhabitants. Chejfec's "My Two Worlds"--an extraordinary meditation on experience, writing and space--is at once descriptively inventive and preternaturally familiar, a novel that challenges the limitations of the genre"--Provided by publisher.

My Two Worlds

Baroni, un viaje

Como en cada libro de Sergio Chejfec, el pensamiento representado ocupa un lugar central en el desarrollo de la escritura. Y una vez más, sus dudas y disquisiciones, unidas a los seres limítrofes que elige exhibir, son la marca de una literatura muy personal.

Baroni: un viaje

Difusamente bella y con una lógica desconcertante, esta novela de Chejfec tiene la curiosa virtud de actualizar un cruce que habría de ser clave en la literatura posterior: fracaso amoroso y crisis social.

El aire

New novel from BTBA finalist about a man obsessed with understanding the working-class via a love affair with a woman.

The Dark

Indagación sobre el pasado y relato sobre los recuerdos, Los planetas fue recibido como uno de los acercamientos literarios más lúcidos al tema de los desaparecidos. Una verdadera interrogación sobre el significado de la memoria desde la condición judía.

Los planetas

Teoría del ascensor

Sergio Chejfec construye una narración sinuosa y persistente a la vez, que se desarrolla como una larga escena teatral.

Boca de lobo

Cinco

Modo Linterna

Moral Chejfec, Sergio

Lenta biografía

Sergio Chejfec, uno de los mejores escritores argentinos del presente, confirma con esta novela la calidad y la originalidad de su poética.

La experiencia dramática

Chejfec repasa las vinculaciones entre la experiencia, la escritura y el espacio, a través de una prosa que alterna la narración con la interpretación y que, por momentos, deviene poesía.

Mis dos mundos

Roman

Geografie eines Wartens

Fiction. Latinx Studies. Art. "It is hard to think of another contemporary writer who, marrying true intellect with simple description of a space, simultaneously covers so little and so much ground." --Times Literary Supplement Baroni is a real person. Baroni is a fictional character. This novel demonstrates that the two statements are not contradictory. The real person is Rafaela Baroni, a renowned popular artist who lives in a small town in the Andean foothills of Venezuela. There she devotes herself to carving wooden figures, almost always religious, to curing the sick, to predicting misfortunes, to dying. Baroni dies and returns to life: twice a year she performs her own death. The fictional character is a vague and multifaceted being who is transfigured into memory, landscape, and communal experiences. BARONI, A JOURNEY is the evolution of an ever-changing gaze, which goes from the main character to the country she inhabits, from the unknowns of popular religion to the no less mysterious conditions for artistic creation. As in all of Sergio Chejfec's books, in Baroni, a Journey the representation of thought occupies a central place in the writing. And once more, his doubts and digressions, together with the marginal beings he chooses to display, are the hallmark of a very personal style. "On first reading Chejfec, we recall many admired authors, but at a later moment--a more solid and lasting one--we realize that he resembles no one, and that he has chosen an unusual and quite distinctive path, one that reveals itself slowly because of the demanding and very personal searches the author himself carries out in his narrative." --Enrique Vila-Matas

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