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The narrator, a 50 year old writer has been attending a writing conference in Brazil and decides to walk through a park. As he walks, he observes and thinks about what he sees, its connection to his past and to his identity. His walking provides what skimpy narrative exists, and among many other things, he speculates about the nature of narrative.. He says he instantly forgets what he's just seen, or rather he tosses it into a jumbled corner of his memory where everything comes up at random. He cannot put them in any sequence, as is done in a conventional novel with a narrative.
That raises the question of why anyone would write a novel. It's as if an entire industry of readers and writers has sprung up around making what's silent speak. For awhile he thought that was the point of why literature existed - the written word confronts what exists so as to get it down. But as the narrator thinks about it, it ceases to have that much importance, and he decides that he may stop writing altogether.

A reader can see, vaguely no doubt, where all this introspection is going. The "two worlds" refer to the narrator's awareness of himself, and another world which is outside of himself. The tension of the book resides where these two merge and become inseparable. No matter how much we try to explain ourselves, either to ourselves or to others, there is always so much left out, so much that is arbitrary and confusing. The narrator draws upon an example from the technological media which has made first copies, rough drafts almost meaningless; our lives are endless and perpetual revisions, "soft copy" he calls it, able to vanish and reappear instantaneously.
All of this appears to present insoluble and vexing philosophical questions. But the narrator concludes that " just as we cannot choose our moment to be born, we also know nothing of the variable worlds we'll inhabit." We just have to resign ourselves to this endless uncertainty. If you as a reader are in the mood for this kind of questioning, ultimately, for why you read, you'll find the book intriguing. Otherwise, you'll exasperatedly throw it down after a few pages. I found myself somewhere in the middle..


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My Two Worlds Sergio Chejfec Margaret Carson Enrique VilaMatas Books Reviews

The narrator, a 50 year old writer has been attending a writing conference in Brazil and decides to walk through a park. As he walks, he observes and thinks about what he sees, its connection to his past and to his identity. His walking provides what skimpy narrative exists, and among many other things, he speculates about the nature of narrative.. He says he instantly forgets what he's just seen, or rather he tosses it into a jumbled corner of his memory where everything comes up at random. He cannot put them in any sequence, as is done in a conventional novel with a narrative.
That raises the question of why anyone would write a novel. It's as if an entire industry of readers and writers has sprung up around making what's silent speak. For awhile he thought that was the point of why literature existed - the written word confronts what exists so as to get it down. But as the narrator thinks about it, it ceases to have that much importance, and he decides that he may stop writing altogether.

A reader can see, vaguely no doubt, where all this introspection is going. The "two worlds" refer to the narrator's awareness of himself, and another world which is outside of himself. The tension of the book resides where these two merge and become inseparable. No matter how much we try to explain ourselves, either to ourselves or to others, there is always so much left out, so much that is arbitrary and confusing. The narrator draws upon an example from the technological media which has made first copies, rough drafts almost meaningless; our lives are endless and perpetual revisions, "soft copy" he calls it, able to vanish and reappear instantaneously.
All of this appears to present insoluble and vexing philosophical questions. But the narrator concludes that " just as we cannot choose our moment to be born, we also know nothing of the variable worlds we'll inhabit." We just have to resign ourselves to this endless uncertainty. If you as a reader are in the mood for this kind of questioning, ultimately, for why you read, you'll find the book intriguing. Otherwise, you'll exasperatedly throw it down after a few pages. I found myself somewhere in the middle..