I am hero. Being a hero is easy. If you do not have arms or legs, you are a hero. Or a dead man. If you do not have parents - rely on your hands and feet. And be a hero. If you have neither arms nor legs, and you also managed to be born an orphan, that’s all. You are doomed to be a hero until the end of your days. Or die. I am hero. I just have no other choice. The mother was separated from her son, they said he died. Thirty years later, he suddenly rose from the dead. The plot rhymes with a throne, arbitrariness, an “iron mask” and wells of oblivion. But these are our places and times. One of their stone bags, which contained a juvenile prisoner, was called the Karl Marx Research Institute. With two active fingers, he now puts his biography in the “black book” of international communism. Black letters on the white ceiling, and at night white on black, bring to life, of course, special literature. Cherney Selin, early Sela, Carver. Blacker than even Shalamov and others who returned and proclaimed the truth that for the writer, the worse, the better. This non-fiction arises beyond the limits of “normal” horror, that which is terrible for normal people, so to speak ...
Content
01. Introduction by Sergey Yurienen
02. Hero
03. Dreams
04. Holiday
05. Food
06. Nannies
07. Boys
08. America
09. Moron
10. Sasha
11. New York
12. Cutlet
13. German
14. Music
15. Letter
16. Pies
17. Fight
18. Spanish
19. Crazy
20. Hands
21. Nursing home
22. Language
23. Cane
24. The Sinner
25. Officer
26. Nurse
27. Pass
28. The Fool
29. Plasticine
30. Never
31. Bro
32. I go
33. Homeland
34. Freedom
35. Black
Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego is a man of amazing fate. He was born in 1968 in Moscow. His mother is Spanish, the daughter of the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain, Ignacio Gallego. Father is a citizen of Venezuela, half Indian, half Spanish. Doctors diagnosed the baby with a terrible diagnosis - cerebral palsy (cerebral palsy). His mothers said he was dead. In reality, he was taken to the village of Kartashevo near Volkhov, where he lived for four years. Ruben spent his childhood and adolescence in orphanages and specialized clinics. In Novocherkassk, he graduated from two colleges. He was twice married. He has two daughters. Gonzalez Gallego traveled to the United States, from New York to San Francisco. The Spanish-Lithuanian director decided to make a documentary about him. In 2000, together with the film group, 32-year-old Ruben traveled the route Novocherkassk - Moscow - Madrid - Paris - Prague. In the Czech capital, he met with his mother. He has a mechanized wheelchair controlled by a joystick. In September 2001, the mother and son left for Spain. There Ruben continued to work on a book that had begun in Russia. He wrote it on a computer with his only active finger. “White on Black” is a book about good, victory, joy, love, strength. And this book is also about the desire to live, about optimism. “His 45 kilograms is 45 kilograms of optimism,” the largest Spanish newspaper El Mundo wrote about Ruben. Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego currently lives in Madrid.
For children with disabilities abandoned by their parents, hospitals are turning into "houses of death." For years without seeing the sun, they rotted alive on iron beds. One nurse with a beggarly salary in five to six wards. Those who are “lucky" to live up to adulthood are sent to die in nursing homes. Anton Borisov and Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego - survived. Their books, like a giant’s hand, grab a man by the scruff of the neck, shake, turn the world upside down and throw it back in an armchair, on a sofa or bench (depending on where you prefer to settle with a book). And no matter how much you shake your head, the inverted world does not fall back into place.
