This is a contribution to the Blog of Literary Workshop: http://subrayandolaspalabras.blogspot.com/ which I am a member.
My first contact with literature, understood as the field of written creation of inner feelings and fiction, was late and the media.
say late because very young so I always was interested in history itself, that is real and concrete facts, events or processes of pure and raw truth or verifiable and quantifiable reality, with characters of flesh and bone ", nothing edge of deep feeling or constructs of the imagination, lofty or disembodied characters ... but that never existed, as are so typical of the Literature.
I say media I am a transitional generation of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, where TV, film, and then later the Internet, have a fundamental and overwhelming weight of the individual.
Venezuela was not then (80s of last century) a place of many broadcasters, but the few who had left their impact on its viewers. So my earliest memories lead me to literature started by TV screens.
So, remember how I hit a miniseries called Shogun (transmitted by a polarized and politicized then nothing Venezolana de Television) based on the historical novel by English writer James Clavell, Australian , but between literature and history, ended up winning the Story because rather than strive to seek the novel and read it, I was left with the question of whether the characters were real and if what is said in the story was true, so I went straight to look in the library of the house Japan had the truth-truth, the real history that inspired the television miniseries. 
And so did I "reconciled" with books, objects both have loved throughout my intellectual and personal life, and yet I found them a most unusual way possible: rayándolos and cutting them. It turned out to be very small, perhaps 4 years, I got into my father's library was quite large and did not know or understand who were these strange objects that were on the shelves, I proceeded to give them some "form and color" because obviously there were many books without illustrations that simply seemed "boring" as Alice said before entering the Wonderland, described by Lewis Carroll. Rayé not only to achieve but it I took scissors to give them "creative ways." The consequences were immediate: a sovereign beating me how to respect these strange objects. And yet in my innocence and ignorance, I asked "what was the fuss about that?". 
The answer would expect: 1983 was the year of the bicentenary of Simón Bolívar, was also the year I went to study at my school, La Salle and both events were crucial, as the commemorative 
Bolivarian commemoration by the atmosphere of historical facts everywhere, not just the TV series and is filled with events, but that schools, especially for children were arriving many publications illustrated with stories of life and work of great character, showing battles, uniforms, splendid things that captivated me. Despite the "ultra scratch" today is, Bolivar admired since. Already in those years I loved drawing, I wanted to shape my doodles and the first things I drew were samurai and soldiers battles and wars of independence.
On the other hand, when entering a Catholic convent school was a very enriching experience, because unlike most of my colleagues, if I was very aware of the classes of religion that gave us, especially (guess) ... because there was a book called Bible Episodes that was only reviews of stories from the Old and New Testament beautifully illustrated. While sister or brother (the "cures" or giving religious school) spoke to us from the depths of faith, I was already deep in the prints that were in the texts. Needless to say, when we saw a historical film about the life of the founder of the school, San Juan Bautista de la Salle [" Monsieur de La Salle "] or when a home Easter Jesus of Nazareth saw of Franco Zeffirelli: I think for a child's imagination was as much volatile material for mentecita restless ... So any text to speak of history and were beautifully illustrated, either with photos or drawings conquered me and I loved it immediately. I left my car and fixing the things I focused on historical, preferably military.
And is that Hitler had already come into my life. Yes, Hitler. I blush to say, but 40 years after the end of his reign of terror, to me, a child of only 5 or 6 years old, that seemed fascinated man 
nte, because what I saw in the documentaries in black and white TV, I found it amazing, fabulous, phenomenal, as is adventures as a rock star, an entertainer or an athlete for a fanatic. Oops God, shame on me, but it was true. In school holidays we went to the countryside to stay with maternal uncles and the first thing I did was go to the library: my hands got excellent lavishly illustrated books of World War II and the Third Reich, were publishers Anes-Noguer, Rizoli and Plaza & Janes, respectively, filled with maps, photos, diagrams and illustrations of weapons and battles. For filled transmitted in those days a movie called " The Hitler's Bunker" [in English is called "The Last Days of Hitler"] starring Sir Alec Guinness, the Star Wars Obi Wan! (I also loved, by the way) And that was like a mystical moment for me, simply indescribable.
Given that spent more time in the library with those books or Fri 
ndo TV documentaries in black and white, and I had emerged as the typical nerd boy, instead of playing outside was locked to learn things already known, so these same maternal uncles saw fit to give me what would be my first major encounter with the literature and in just the keywords of my love: books. I gave an illustrated version for young people in three volumes of Don Quixote , published by Planeta, along with other classics such as William Tell Schiller The Christmas Song Dickens, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Aladdin , Thumb, etc. I quickly devoured them, more aware of the drawings (which were in a comic style) than the plot itself, then gave me a collection of several volumes red, medium thick, about the works of Jules Verne had the distinction of being half comic, half-normal text, I of course focusing on the drawn. I knew it the classic 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea , the journey to the center land , among others.
could say that I became "cult" by some traps , because at the age of 9-10 years knew the substance of certain literary works, from "the litmus test" when a lady very close family friend, a teacher in literature to be exact, made some comments about Don Quixote in a conversation I had with my mom and my aunts during your visit to our house, and I told him meddling "was not the case" and to ask how I knew, I said I had "read" the work and then began to relate full episodes of the works of Cervantes. The surprise was great and the mistake too, as you have believed that tender age I read everything I just classic. That would make it 15 years later, when there was no social pressure or shout above the school being forced to do so and thus ruin me enjoy it. 
And that is truly very little has been what I've been enjoying myself in literature, and that field was not my preference. Instead of reading stories to children or young people preferred illustrated history books for children or Universal History textbooks and Venezuela, which have many graphs, charts, tables and case illustrations. (So \u200b\u200bit's not surprising that one of my favorite children's educational programs was exactly the series "Once Upon a Time man" who still really enjoy watching on DVD) 
Y so, that through an image is captured on canvas, or audiovisual phonography Literature became a tributary of history in my case, because at the time to read books "serious" and without cartoons , the historical facts or processes, whether political, military and economic completely won. Also devoured with a genuine interest items such as encyclopedias Barsa, Hispanic , Espasa - Calpe , Salvat or Larousse, also accompanied by beautiful illustrations, charts and diagrams teaching allowed me to go reading countless historical issues not only: for example, I learned that one of the first novels of history was Japanese-Monogatari Gengi , a name since I read it was an extremely funny and even after decades of reading I remember clearly. So thanks to those reading the encyclopedia and interesting program that I liked to see in the now defunct National Television Channel 5 , he learned much, much, resulting in a genuine feedback, because what I saw and I was interested in Direct TV brought me books, or visceversa, because what I did read a basis for understanding the sometimes complex content transmitted there (If it was not just a channel "aimed at children", and sometimes made programs, which I was for old I could hardly understand) But so was shaping my intellectual tastes, and history, sovereign, increasingly consolidated his weight on me, making me that since it was clearly young and determined a complete Humanist . (With the appropriate horror at math, heh, heh), authors such as Guillermo Morón, Ramon J. Velasquez, Manuel Caballero and Elijah went Pino Ituerrieta making my first readings in complex national history, historians of textbooks and JM Siso Martínez, Alberto Yepez Arías Amaro or Aureo Castillo, while the exact field of literature only read the classic mandatory school: Iliad - Odyssey , Doña Bárbara , Romeo and Juliet or Hundred Years of Solitude, among others. Occasionally leafing through books of poetry such as Neruda, perhaps the one thing no other historical and literary taste were addressed with humor works of Hannibal and Achilles Nazoa and "Otrova Gum" (Jaime Ballestas) all Venezuelans. But the literature-literature itself was behind to pass through the filter of history and through the pictorial or visual. 
So after watching the miniseries on TV Quo Vadis or Anno Domini and films as Ben Hur Romans or The Robe, was that I venture to 
to read me some pages of the works that gave life to these productions s movie, although again the story ended up winning : I read completito The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius in a paperback edition from the publisher Edima. Something similar happened with the film All Quiet on the front , (the 70s) moving antiwar film that made me reflect a lot with my passion for war. When I was a book, look and read it with interest, but
the end, history will again won the literature, I sank to fully study all when get my hands on the First World War.
And so it has been since then, almost all films 
historic or leaving a film that has its origin in a book, a classic or not the literature is the story behind the work, that is what drives the plot, which is interesting. So for example would The Exorcist, The Shoes of the Fisherman and Scarlet and Black, movies that has its origins in literary bestsellers in this case located in the field of religion, the importance of faith and the struggle between good and evil, and instead of making me go by the book, I became interested in the importance of religious study, the history of the papacy and the Catholic Church .
The list then is uncountable: The Godfather Mario Puzo , for example I did INTERSOS in the history of the Mafia in the U.S. thanks to the film by Francis Ford Copola, from side to book while in other cases as 1984 starring John Hurt and Richard Burton, took me to the novel by Orwell , and then further on totalitarianism and so we have more cases where as I said, Literature was simple tax history, and in this case supported by the celluloid or TV; War and Peace , Fahrenheit 451, Doña Bárbara , Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia , Lolita , The Name of the Rose , Richard III , The House of Spirits , Hamlet, The Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter among many that is impossible to list here ... So that those powders brought this mud literary history, in which I am currently bogged down because to me a strange environment, precisely because my field is different from other letters and in this brief and complicated exercise to me, I have more of a chronological summary of the type that corresponds to the short story genre of tale, but nevertheless, I hope at least without being properly a strictly literary piece, has served the reader or at least captured their attention. Thanks
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