Readings and representations of the trialectics of spatial and the trialectics of being in Sergio Chejfec's short stories
Abstract
Modo linterna’s short-stories “Donaldson Park” and “Hacia la ciudad eléctrica”, by Argentinian author Sergio Chejfec (Buenos Aires, 1956), can be taken as paradigmatic texts to understand the juxtaposed dynamics between spaces and identities in the contemporary individual’s urban experience. In order to evaluate the latter, my aim in this paper is to propose a reading of identity and space as processes articulated through the multiple configurations of the trialectics of space (Lefebvre [1974] 2013) and the trialectics of being (Soja 1996). The purpose of this article is to analyze how the spatiality depicted in Chejfec’s short-stories proposes an understanding of the contemporary individual as a spatial, historical and social being, while at the same it formulates a reading of space as a starting-point to carry out an interpretation of the configurations of the sensitive experience that gives rise to new modes of feeling and induce new forms to interpret the self in space.
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