My Two Worlds is a novel by the Argentine writer Sergio Chejfec. The book follows a first-person narrator as he takes a walk through an unnamed Brazilian city. It depicts the narrator's wandering both physically and mentally through an unfamiliar environment that reminds him Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. · My Two Worlds is the kind of book that makes you wish we had more books in translation, an experiment for letting the mind wander—not in that Finnegans Wake way where you have no idea what’s going on, but through a guided path, like a park. Chejfec takes a literary outlook distinctly South American and pushes it through a new prism of organized wilderness. by Sergio Chejfec. Aug. novel | pb | pgs. " x ". “Chejfec's latest work should be treated as a significant event." —Publishers Weekly. 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 .
Chejfec'sMy 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. Sergio Chejfec, originally from Argentina, has published numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Among his grants and prizes, he has. My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec translated by Margaret Carson $, Softcover Open Letter Books, I begin this essay by dwelling on Sebald's gaze because it is the best context for a reading of Argentine novelist Sergio Chejfec's novel My Two Worlds. Chejfec's publisher, Open Letter Books, has perhaps unwisely permitted this to be. Rather than review Sergio Chejfec's novel My Two Worlds, I want to reflect instead on who should read it.. Parks and long walks separate me from time and install me in a different dimension, an alternate one, obviously compatible with the true one, shall we say, or in any case, with the regular one, isolated and at times autonomous as it may be.
Sergio Chejfec is the author of a dozen books of fiction, poetry, and essays. His most recent book, Mis dos mundos—from which the present excerpt is taken—was published earlier this year by Alfaguara. While living in Caracas from –, he was editor of the journal Nueva Sociedad. He currently lives in New York City. My Two Worlds is the kind of book that makes you wish we had more books in translation, an experiment for letting the mind wander—not in that Finnegans Wake way where you have no idea what’s going on, but through a guided path, like a park. Chejfec takes a literary outlook distinctly South American and pushes it through a new prism of organized wilderness. My Two Worlds is a novel by the Argentine writer Sergio Chejfec. The book follows a first-person narrator as he takes a walk through an unnamed Brazilian city. It depicts the narrator's wandering both physically and mentally through an unfamiliar environment that reminds him of other walks he has taken in other cities.
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