“In general, I know that when speaking of private and opposing worlds, one tends to refer to divided, sometimes even irreconcilable facets of personality or of the spirit, each with its corresponding secret value and its psychological, metaphysical, political, or… — 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 that solitude… — 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 illusions. — Sergio Chejfec 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 a way… — 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 to a… — 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, the realization… — Sergio Chejfec 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 specific. I… — Sergio Chejfec 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 "lie," because… — 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 of a… — Sergio Chejfec 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, for example,… — Sergio Chejfec 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 species of… — 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 cyber-flâneur, as… — Sergio Chejfec 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 you know… — 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 of "the… — Sergio Chejfec 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 of personality… — Sergio Chejfec 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 similar to… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
