Having finished reading Borges's book "Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", published in Uzbek, I also went through a…

Having finished reading Borges's book "Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", published in Uzbek, I also went through a large part of Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude". I do my reading when I am busy with something other than my main work. Borges is a man who wanders among fantasies and all sorts of books. A powerful wordsmith who tried to analyze human moods and nature in depth, who reflected on God, who compared various views — a writer whose mind works. Naturally, I gained nothing new for my worldview. Márquez has many points in common with Borges. Both portray people savagely, mercilessly, indifferently, without feeling. Márquez sees the problems of time and space deeply; he can take a contextual photograph of a situation. But the photograph itself does not solve anything. In the writings of these two, good and evil, truth and falsehood lie mixed together, especially in Márquez. He instills the notion that there is no creature as unreliable as man. In Márquez, the women of the Buendía household — women like Úrsula, Rebeca, Remedios, Fernanda — have steadfastness and purity. They preserve as far as they can their modesty and shame, their chastity and honor, while among most of the other characters, especially the men, debauchery is presented as an ordinary thing. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" also resembles an encyclopedia; reading it, one could sit and decode one by one what the writer has hidden in various allusions and symbols.