Quotes by Sergio Chejfec

About Sergio Chejfec:

Sergio Chejfec is an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. From 1990 to 2005 he lived in Venezuela, where he published Nueva sociedad, a journal of politics, culture and the social sciences. He currently lives in New York City and teaches in the Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University.
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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 pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true s...

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 rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a chan...

Sergio Chejfec

Author Bio

  • NameSergio Chejfec
  • DescriptionArgentine writer
  • Born1956
  • CountryArgentina
  • ProfessionWriter
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship