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El aire

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Spanish

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

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Sergio Chejfec

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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.

Chejfec has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. His works include Lenta biografía (1990), Los planetas (1999), Boca de lobo (2000), Los incompletos (2004), Baroni: un viaje (2007), Mis dos mundos (2008), and La experiencia dramática (2012). He has been compared to Juan José Saer, which he finds flattering but not accurate. His novels usually feature a slow-paced narration that interweaves a minimal plot with reflection. Memory, political violence, and Jewish-Argentine culture and history are some of the recurring themes in his work.

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October 8, 2025
"A pesar de las cartas y de la ausencia, no podía creer que se hubiera marchado: no porque fuese imposible sino porque él mismo, Barroso, se había tornado irreal desde su partida. Con su ausencia lo había despojado de temperatura y de espesor; ahora veía claro."
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September 16, 2013
Una ruptura matrimonial desata este relato de desmoronamientos. Es una separaci�n de la que se ignoran sus causas o justificaciones; s�lo asistimos a las consecuencias. Frente a la esquela dejada por su mujer, Barroso se hunde en un tiempo liso y progresivamente irreal, a merced de la perplejidad. El aire tiene la curiosa virtud de actualizar un cruce que habr�a de ser clave en la literatura posterior: fracaso amoroso y crisis social.
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July 1, 2011
Chejfec narra una historia desesperante por su monotonía y ajenidad, cuyo paulatino desmoronamiento atrapa al lector y lo sumerge en una vorágine de la nada. Además, la despersonalización y extrañamiento de Buenos Aires contribuye a hacer de la novela un otro que, no obstante, toca al lector como algo propio.
Muy buena.
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