Contributions

  • Carson, Margaret (Margaret B.) - Contributor

Publication

2011 - Open Letter, Rochester, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

25,750 words, Guess

Page Count

103 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101934824283
  • ISBN-139781934824283
  • Library of Congress Control Number2011020158
  • Open LibraryOL25138587M

Classifications

  • DDC863/.64
  • LCCPQ7798.13.H38 M57 2011

Description

"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"--

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