Маркес - это начало всей моей читательской биографии....

Marquez is the beginning of my reading biography. Actually, I started reading when I was 3.5 years old and immediately frantically. I read everything that came to hand: signs, labels, a newspaper upside down, which grandfather held in his hands. What else came to hand in the early post-Soviet era? Books about young Lenin and courageous partisans (the basis of my upbringing and worldview), crazy newspapers of the 90s, like UFOs, Speed-Info and scanwords, between them, of course, are Jules Verne and Ray Bradbury, Belyaev. Nobody oversaw my reader’s zeal, didn’t compose guidelines (books that must be read at three years, at five, at eight). In fact, most of the texts read in childhood were utter rubbish, like most of the education in the 90s ..
Against this background, it should not be surprising that Yegor Letov became my first curator in the world of literature. Starting from the 11th grade, I read books for several years from the lines of songs, and then on the recommendations from the interview. Of course, the first in line was "One Hundred Years of Solitude." And behind her is almost the entire Marquez. It was then difficult to buy in stores. For many years there were some problems with the rights to publish books, so they were not published. Therefore, I read it in the reading room of the student library, in the first Internet libraries. Periodically, small quantities of books were thrown into the store, but it seems that never more than 3-4 items at a time ... Therefore, I have the whole Marquez in different editions. For a long time I wanted to go and buy a collection of works, to replace all this soft and wrinkled discord. But changed her mind. History, after all.
A separate mention is the biography of Marquez. For me, she was almost more interesting than the novels themselves. The main discovery - the main events of his magical world - is a reality that passed before his eyes in the first eight years of his life in a small town with his grandparents. Both the aunts, who sew the shroud for themselves, and the girls traveling with a box in which the bones of their parents lie and much more surrounded the little boy and he recreated them all his life in his books. For me, this story always serves as an important lesson related to parenting. You never know how it will turn out ...