Oct 7.
Touki Bouki: Varying from horrifying, beautiful, confusing, funny, and back to beautiful, this demands a rewatch, very powerful images
Nazi Literature in the Americas: Bolano sets up a perfect ending to the novel. The final chapter is a gut punch so unexpected and shocking that it recontextualises the rest of the book; no longer are the frightful entries merely abstract and historical encyclopedia entries but rather real personnages, real events, real suffering.
Thinking about: the "double market" the US benefited from WW2 and reconstruction. First production was increased to meet demand in Europe for weapons, then the surplus value accumulated from this could be forwarded into reconstruction. Double accumulation occurred from what an involved continental party could at best only experience as simple reproduction. (?) There has to be a better term for this after (presumably) so much has been written about this.
Today's Bread: Simple baguette, 75% hydration, better than yesterday
Comments
Bolaño & baguettes!
Can't go wrong (though, if he'd had a craving for comfort food, I'd imagine he would have wanted Chilean marraquetas or hallullas or sopaipillas)!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Rob
Thanks Rob! I mostly plan on using this blog for documenting my baking/reading, so forgive me if its a little oblique! If you have any marraquetas recipes I'd love to try them!
Glad to see another Bolaño fan!
baking/books is great, Eric.
I like the idea that you plan to add additional dimensions of interest/hobby/obsession/profession to your blog here.
As for marraquetas, here's thebreadtopia version -- which I cannot say is good or not. Perhaps we can become savage bread detectives and find una auténtica receta chilena.
Rob