My Two Worlds
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934824283 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 103 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Why read at all?? earing The narrator, a 50 year old writer has been attending a writing conference in Brazil and decides to walk through a park. As he walks, he observes and thinks about what he sees, its connection to his past and to his identity. His walking provides what skimpy narrative exists, and among many other things, he speculates about the nature of narrative He says he instantly forgets what he's just seen, or rather he tosses it int
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. Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in "My Two Worlds" is wandering in an unfamiliar Brazilian city, in search of a park. 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 inhab
He is a great enthusiast of walking, going so far as to claim that it saved him, although from what he's uncertain: "maybe from the danger of not being myself because to walk is to enact the illusion of autonomy and above all the myth of authenticity." Recently, however, the act has become less meaningful--or perhaps less mysterious--to him. The narrator, an unnamed Argentinean writer, wanders a city in the south of Brazil. From Publishers Weekly Lean, thoughtful, and keenly observed, the Argentinean Chejfec's first work translated into English packs a great deal of insight into 102