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001 2011020158
003 DLC
005 20120317083251.0
008 110526s2011 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2011020158
020 $a9781934824283 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a1934824283 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hspa
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPQ7798.13.H38$bM57 2011
082 00 $a863/.64$223
100 1 $aChejfec, Sergio.
240 10 $aMis dos mundos.$lEnglish
245 10 $aMy two worlds /$cSergio Chejfec ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret B. Carson ; introduction by Enrique Vila-Matas.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aRochester, NY :$bOpen Letter,$c2011.
300 $aix, 103 p. ;$c22 cm.
520 $a"Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. A walker by inclination and habit, he has decided to explore the city after attending a literary conference--he was invited following the publication of his most recent novel, although, as he has been informed via anonymous e-mail, the novel is not receiving good reviews. Initially thwarted by his inability to transpose the two-dimensional information of the map onto the impassable roads and dead-ends of the three-dimensional city, once he finds the park the narrator begins to see his own thoughts, reflections, and memories mirrored in the landscape of the park and its inhabitants. Chejfec's "My Two Worlds"--an extraordinary meditation on experience, writing and space--is at once descriptively inventive and preternaturally familiar, a novel that challenges the limitations of the genre"--$cProvided by publisher.
700 1 $aCarson, Margaret$q(Margaret B.)