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Sergio Chejfec


Born
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 02, 1956

Died
April 02, 2022

Genre
Fiction, Contemporary


Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.

Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot wi ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 1,149 ratings · 209 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors
My Two Worlds
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The Planets
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The Dark
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3.73 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions
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The Incompletes
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La experiencia dramática
3.30 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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Últimas noticias de la escr...
3.39 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
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Modo linterna
3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Baroni: Un viaje
3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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El aire
3.53 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions
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3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions
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“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?”
― Sergio Chejfec, The Planets
tags: identity, true-self
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“For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective.”
― Sergio Chejfec, The Planets
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“Because sometimes the memory of what one has read tempers the actual experience, and the experience itself becomes, more than something physical, the realization of the reading...”
― Sergio Chejfec, My Two Worlds
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