{"product_id":"forgotten-manuscript-paperback","title":"Forgotten Manuscript - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSergio Chejfec\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Lawrence\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sergio Chejfec is an admirable writer.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--Patti Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Could anyone possibly believe that writing doesn't exist? It would be like denying the existence of rain.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perfect green notebook forms the basis for Sergio Chejfec's work, collecting writing, and allowing it to exist in a state of permanent possibility, or, as he says, \"The written word is also capable of waiting for the next opportunity to appear and to continue to reveal itself by and for itself.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis same notebook is also the jumping off point for this essay, which considers the dimensions of the act of writing (legibility, annotation, facsimile, inscription, typewriter versus word processor versus pen) as a way of thinking, as a record of relative degrees of permanence, and as a performance. From Kafka through Borges, Nabokov, Levrero, Walser, the implications of how we write take on meaning as well worth considering as what we write. This is a love letter to the act of writing as practice, bearing down on all the ways it happens (cleaning typewriter keys, the inevitable drying out of the bottle of wite-out, the difference between Word Perfect and Word) to open up all the ways in which \"when we express our thought, it changes.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSergio Chejfec\u003c\/strong\u003e was a fiction writer and essayist born in Argentina. Between 1990 and 2005 he lived in Caracas. He was writer in Residence in the M.F.A. Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York at the time of his death. His books include: \u003cem\u003eModo linterna\u003c\/em\u003e (short fiction, 2013), \u003cem\u003eLa experiencia dram疸ica\u003c\/em\u003e (novel, 2012), \u003cem\u003eSobre Giannuzzi\u003c\/em\u003e (essay, 2010), \u003cem\u003eMis dos mundos\u003c\/em\u003e (novel, 2008), \u003cem\u003eBaroni, un viaje\u003c\/em\u003e (novel, 2007). He writes about memory, the idea of experience and urban perambulation. He has published various essays and short stories in diverse anthologies and collections. He has been translated into English, French, German, Turkish and Hebrew. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Resident of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey Lawrence\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, where he teaches modern U.S. and Latin American literature and culture. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAnxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bola\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2018) and the translator of Andr駸 Neuman's \u003cem\u003eHow to Travel Without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e (Restless Books, 2016). His work has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Puerto Rico Review\u003c\/em\u003e as well as in numerous academic journals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765117747488,"sku":"9781913867713","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8a39aadb75918e1eb7fe92c0d6868a2d.webp?v=1780262360","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/forgotten-manuscript-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}