Sergio Chejfec, originally from Argentina, has published numerous
works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Among his grants and prizes,
he has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation
in 2007 and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2000. He
teaches at NYU.
Heather Cleary is a translator of fiction, criticism, and poetry.
In 2005, she was awarded a Translation Fund grant from the PEN
American Center for her work on Oliverio Girondo.
"A novel that is both unique and opportune."Rodolfo Enrique
Fogwill
"Chejfec's words wander through all manner of tangential topics,
and while the story seems, on the surface, as haphazardly
constructed as a collection of memories should and would be, there
is no doubt about the meticulousness behind the text. Heather
Cleary's translation walks this tightrope perfectly, displaying
with an uncanny grace both the chaos and the order that make up the
core of the book."Full Stop
"To read The Planets is not so much to implant oneself within its
narrated world as it is to discover oneself in this world's orbit.
Whereas in Chejfec's English-language debut, My Two Worlds, the
reader is invited into not merely the narrator's world but his very
perception of it, The Planets is distinguished by the ambivalence
of its intimacythe holding of its reader at arm's length, in an
abeyant proximity."The Quarterly Conversation
"The Planets is a reflective book about friendship and loss that
should be read slowly. For even if M's city is not ours, grief is a
landscape we all come to know."Foreward Reviews
"Borgesian in its poetic beauty, Chejfec writes with lyrical grace
and astuteness."Newcity Lit
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