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"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer." —Patti Smith “Could
anyone possibly believe that writing doesn’t exist? It would be
like denying the existence of rain.” The perfect green notebook
forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec’s work, collecting writing,
and allowing it to exist in a state of permanent possibility, or,
as he says, “The written word is also capable of waiting for the
next opportunity to appear and to continue to reveal itself by and
for itself.” This same notebook is also the jumping off
point for this essay, which considers the dimensions of the act of
writing (legibility, annotation, facsimile, inscription, typewriter
versus word processor versus pen) as a way of thinking, as a record
of relative degrees of permanence, and as a performance. From Kafka
through Borges, Nabokov, Levrero, Walser, the implications of how
we write take on meaning as well worth considering as what we
write. This is a love letter to the act of writing as practice,
bearing down on all the ways it happens (cleaning typewriter keys,
the inevitable drying out of the bottle of wite-out, the difference
between Word Perfect and Word) to open up all the ways in which
“when we express our thought, it changes.”
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The Planets (Paperback)
Sergio Chejfec
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R391
R344
Discovery Miles 3 440
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When he reads about a mysterious explosion, the narrator's thoughts
turn to his disappeared childhood friend, M, who was abducted
during a spasm of political violence in Buenos Aires in the early
1970s. He convinces himself that M must have died in this
explosion, and he begins to tell the story of their friendship
through a series interconnected vignettes.
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The Dark (Paperback)
Sergio Chejfec
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R411
R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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Opening with the presently shut-in narrator reminiscing about a
past relationship with Delia, a young factory worker, "The Dark"
employs Chejfec's signature style with an emphasis on the geography
and motion of the mind, to recount the time the narrator spent with
this multifaceted, yet somewhat absent, woman. "The Dark" is the
most captivating example of Chejfec's unique narrative approach.
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