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 history, of evidence. It's a way for the way the narrator to construct a semblance of… — 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
