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El llamado de la especie

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Una mujer y sus amigas. Unos recuerdos de infancia. Unos traslados. Unas fabricas. Unos pobres. Unas historias. Tales son los elementos que integran EL LLAMADO DE LA ESPECIE. Pese a su claridad, los hechos se empecinan en confundirse: pocas cosas se repiten igual, todo es diferente a como se previo. La complejidad resulta tan ardua que la protagonista decide plegarse al torrente temporal que ordena, selecciona y desecha. Sin embargo no es admitida: debe atender al llamado que muchos han escuchado y pocos obedecido. Debe ser la testigo, o sea una ajena. Pero esta marginacion tambien la decepciona. Una decepcion que perdura hasta tanto se produce un cambio fundamental: la mujer decide asumirse como voz negada, como eco desordenado. En esa parte de la historia comienza el libro.

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

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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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