“… to walk is to enact the illusion of autonomy and above all the myth of authenticity.” — Sergio Chejfec Authenticity Copy Share Image
I don't even know - for me, it's difficult to decide which is more important - the things or the thoughts. It… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
One must distance oneself from the idea of strict realism. It seems to me that real nature doesn't exist anymore, this idea… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that… — Sergio Chejfec Consequence Copy Share Image
Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
At one point I felt a tension between objects, their real, physical lives, and the idea of meaning: the physical, material reality… — Sergio Chejfec Book Copy Share Image
“Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes the memory of what one has read tempers the actual experience, and the experience itself becomes, more than something physical,… — Sergio Chejfec Memory Copy Share Image
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
For me parks are good when first of all, they're not impeccable, and when solitude has appropriated them in such a way… — Sergio Chejfec Aliens Copy Share Image
Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists,… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone… — Sergio Chejfec Challenges Copy Share Image
When I use a name or place, I want to leave the reader open to the waterfall of determinacy that it may… — Sergio Chejfec Books Copy Share Image
A word, and all the infinite fluctuations it may possess. Like that moment when you know you have something to say, and… — Sergio Chejfec Books Copy Share Image
We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in… — Sergio Chejfec Dependence Copy Share Image
“In general, I know that when speaking of private and opposing worlds, one tends to refer to divided, sometimes even irreconcilable facets… — Sergio Chejfec Coexistence Copy Share Image
I find that, for me, it is this concept of borrowed or built life, life on loan, that gets me writing. It's… — Sergio Chejfec Books Copy Share Image
I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for… — Sergio Chejfec Argument Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Blunders Copy Share Image
Nostalgia for people, cultures, everything. There's an ability to use these marks to note things that are erased, deleted. Traces are a… — Sergio Chejfec Ability Copy Share Image
