My two worlds / Sergio Chejfec ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson ; introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chejfec, Sergio.

Contributor:

Carson, Margaret (Margaret B.)

Standardized Title:

Mis dos mundos. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Authors--Fiction.

Authors.

Parks.

Parks--Fiction.

Brazil--Fiction.

Brazil.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

ix, 103 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2011.

Summary:

"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 conference--he was invited following the publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability to transpose the two-dimensional information of the map onto the impassable roads and dead-ends of the three-dimensional city, once he finds the park the narrator begins to see his own thoughts, reflections, and memories mirrored in the landscape of the park and its inhabitants. Chejfec's "My 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"--Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the Spanish.

ISBN:

1934824283

OCLC:

704383535

Publisher Number:

99946441579