My pocket treasures [Eng/Esp]

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In my adolescence, I was already a lover of reading, and as I imagine many of you also did, I saved the money my parents gave me for snacks. They believed that money was being spent on a sandwich or a soft drink during recess, but I, with the complicity of my yearning to read, diverted it toward a much more flavorful destination: the bookstore on the corner. I perfectly remember the feeling of guilt and excitement when handing over those bills, knowing that in return I was not getting a peanut bar, but something that would feed my imagination for much longer than just a few minutes of taste.


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Today, with the perspective of years, I display, with a mixture of pride and nostalgia, the books that I was able to treasure as a small and incomplete collection. They are a series very special to me, the little pocket books published by Editorial Alianza Cien in the late 1990s or early 2000s. That collection was my gateway to a diverse and profound literary world, and thanks to that adolescent buying fever, I was able to have, and still have, small treasures that I now consider invaluable.


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Through my hands have passed and rest works such as Aura by Carlos Fuentes, with its enveloping and almost ghostly atmosphere, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, which awakened in me a passion for mystery and logical deduction, and The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft, which plunged me into the abysses of a cosmic terror I had never imagined. But my collection is not limited to horror or detective genres, for I also treasure the stories of Juan Rulfo, whose desertlike and desolate prose taught me about the harshness and poetry of Mexico, the brief and ingenious fables of Augusto Monterroso, which say so much in so few lines, and the raw, Buenos Aires style of Jorge Arlt, all the way to the existentialist and tormented writing of Ernesto Sabato.


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They are more than books; they are witnesses to an era when every page was a discovery, and in this community of literature lovers I have reviewed almost all of them, sharing my impressions and rereading them from the adult perspective I now have. Today, seeing them lined up on my bookshelf, I not only celebrate the joy of owning them, but I also celebrate that adolescent girl who decided to trade sugar for ink and who knew that a book was an investment for a lifetime.


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Each one of these small volumes contains not only a story, but the story of my formation as a reader, a story written with every coin saved and every page devoured in secret.

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โœจ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’Œ๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ! โœจ
๐‘ฐ๐’‡ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’…๐’๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’Œ๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’š๐’†๐’•, ๐‘ฐโ€™๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐‘ช๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“, ๐’‚ ๐’˜๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’†๐’“ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’โ€™๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’Š๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘จ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’๐’“๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’”, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’-๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’† (๐’๐’ ๐‘จ๐‘ฐ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’๐’†๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’š ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
๐‘ณ๐’๐’—๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’•? ๐‘ผ๐’‘๐’—๐’๐’•๐’†, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•, ๐’๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’”๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐’„๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’š! ๐Ÿ’›

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Mis tesoros de bolsillo

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En mi adolescencia, ya era amante de la lectura, y como imagino que muchos de ustedes tambiรฉn hicieron, yo ahorraba el dinero que mis padres me daban para las meriendas. Ellos creรญan que ese dinero se convertรญa en un bocadillo o en un refresco en el recreo, pero yo, con la complicidad de mis ansias de leer, lo desviaba hacia un destino mucho mรกs sabroso: la librerรญa de la esquina. Recuerdo perfectamente la sensaciรณn de culpa y emociรณn al entregar esos billetes, de saber que a cambio no recibรญa una barrita de manรญ, sino algo que alimentarรญa mi imaginaciรณn durante mucho mรกs tiempo que unos pocos minutos de sabor.


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Hoy, con la perspectiva de los aรฑos, exhibo, con una mezcla de orgullo y nostalgia, los libros que a manera de pequeรฑa e incompleta colecciรณn pude atesorar. Se trata de una serie muy especial para mรญ, los pequeรฑos bolsilibros que publicรณ la Editorial Alianza Cien en los รบltimos aรฑos de los noventa o a principios de los dos mil. Esa colecciรณn fue mi puerta de entrada a un mundo literario diverso y profundo, y gracias a esa fiebre de compras adolescentes, pude tener, y todavรญa tengo, pequeรฑos tesoros que hoy en dรญa considero invaluables.


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Entre mis manos han pasado y reposan obras como Aura, de Carlos Fuentes, con su atmรณsfera envolvente y casi fantasmagรณrica, El sabueso de los Baskerville, de Arthur Conan Doyle, que despertรณ en mรญ la pasiรณn por el misterio y la deducciรณn lรณgica, y El horror de Dunwich, de H.P. Lovecraft, que me sumergiรณ en los abismos de un terror cรณsmico que jamรกs habรญa imaginado. Pero mi colecciรณn no se limita al gรฉnero de terror o policiaco, pues tambiรฉn atesoro los relatos de Juan Rulfo, cuya prosa desรฉrtica y desolada me enseรฑรณ sobre la dureza y la poesรญa de Mรฉxico, las fรกbulas breves e ingeniosas de Augusto Monterroso, que en pocas lรญneas dicen tanto, y la escritura desgarrada y porteรฑa de Jorge Arlt, hasta la prosa existencialista y atormentada de Ernesto Sabato.


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Son mรกs que libros, son testigos de una รฉpoca en la que cada pรกgina era un descubrimiento, y en esta comunidad de amantes de la literatura he reseรฑado casi todos, compartiendo mis impresiones y releyรฉndolos desde la mirada adulta que ahora tengo. Hoy, al verlos alineados en mi estanterรญa, no solo celebro la dicha de tenerlos, sino que celebro a aquella adolescente que decidiรณ cambiar el azรบcar por la tinta y que supo que un libro era una inversiรณn para toda la vida.


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Cada uno de estos pequeรฑos volรบmenes no solo contiene una historia, sino la historia de mi formaciรณn como lectora, una historia escrita con cada moneda ahorrada y cada pรกgina devorada a escondidas.

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โœจ ยก๐‘ฎ๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’” ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’“! โœจ
๐‘บ๐’Š ๐’‚รบ๐’ ๐’๐’ ๐’Ž๐’† ๐’„๐’๐’๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”: ๐’”๐’๐’š ๐’๐’†๐’–๐’“รณ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’‚ ๐’š ๐’†๐’”๐’„๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’„๐’–๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’‚, ๐’Ž๐’‚๐’…๐’“๐’†, ๐’Ž๐’–๐’‹๐’†๐’“ ๐’š ๐’”๐’รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’๐’“๐’‚ ๐’’๐’–๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’„๐’๐’๐’•๐’“รณ ๐’†๐’ ๐‘ฏ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’–๐’ ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’ ๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’‚๐’„๐’Š๐’ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’—๐’๐’๐’‚๐’“.
๐‘ฌ๐’ ๐’•๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’ ๐’š ๐’๐’‚๐’” ๐’Š๐’Žรก๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’ ๐’…๐’† ๐’Ž๐’Š ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’๐’“รญ๐’‚, 100% ๐’‰๐’–๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’๐’” (๐’”๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐‘จ).
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’“ ๐’…๐’Š๐’”๐’†รฑ๐’‚๐’…๐’ ๐’‘๐’๐’“ ๐‘ณ๐’–๐’Ž๐’Š๐’Š.
ยฟ๐‘ป๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’–๐’”๐’•รณ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’–๐’ƒ๐’๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’„๐’Šรณ๐’? ๐‘ฝ๐’๐’•๐’‚, ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’‚ ๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’–๐’†๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’‚ ๐’‚๐’š๐’–๐’…๐’‚๐’“ ๐’‚ ๐’…๐’†๐’”๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’“ ๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’‚๐’”. ๐Ÿ’›

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