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The Mangunrok goes directly to the Borgesian Library
It is a poem when a book is the end and the beginning of a nice story where we can enjoy the Korean cuisine adapting World famous recipes. And the book is a feast done by an in love man to an incredible cuisinier who teach and learn to love through an alternative story to real History. Is History being betrayed? We know for sure that Prince Sado real History was hidden and we do not know the real facts around Yeonsangun, we know only what the winners wrote in the Korean Chronicles. This is so Borges, my preferred author, that I cannot avoid to remember what Baricco said about TV series, "they are the new books". I understand this Bon Appetit series is based in a web novel that I could ever read if not made a TV series and I am grateful to be in this era where I can, in the other side of the world, follow the incredible story of Yeon Suksu and the more incredible arrangements to the well known 1506 Korean History. A world of the History that nerver were, a world of a novelist making her readers enjoy this parallel Universe. A world where we can salute to Borges so many times. Is there a previous Korean Borges I am totally ignorant of? It is deserved to be known if there exists.
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