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Three short stories were included in this volume. I wrote E and I, the work of my youth, at the end of my twenties (1979), after spending a short week in Bábolna, a prominent state farm of socialism at the time, which specialized in animal breeding, from unhappy mass-produced chickens to successful racehorses.
I wrote Aunt Emily's Beard fourteen years later (1993). We went to an English course with András Kepes, who tried to bring us to intermediate level knowledge in a month using the method described in the short novel. Not boarding, just walk-in. Success was missed. I felt the subject was quite cinematic, and for a while Objektiv Stúdió considered shooting it, but in the end it was rejected, I don't remember why. How this sort of thing took place in Hungarian film production is somewhat outlined in one of the chapters of the following short novel.
Márkez and I was born another eleven years later (20034). This was the first shameful attempt to create some kind of autobiographical text. His inspiration was the Spanish language, which I tried hard to absorb because I wanted to read the original novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. It worked. I felt and still feel Gabriel García Márquez as my close spiritual relative. His picture hangs in the kitchen, on the wall where my family members' photos are
