The walk is like a matrix, like a diffuse, vague happening. It's like - imagine a play, a work of theatre, that is totally vague, almost devoid of de…

- Sergio Chejfec

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 when you look closer, every "l…

- Sergio Chejfec

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 itself becomes a…

- Sergio Chejfec

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

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 you really w…

- Sergio Chejfec

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 hi…

- Sergio Chejfec

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 speaking about literature. I l…

- Sergio Chejfec

Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the puls…

- Sergio Chejfec

For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but …

- Sergio Chejfec