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Jorge Luis Borges, "The Secret Miracle"

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Secret Miracle"

Update: 2020-11-04
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Jorge Luis Borges first published the story El milagro secreto in the magazine Sur in February of 1943, in the middle of WWII.  It is about a Jewish Czech writer living in Prague during the beginning of the Nazi occupation in 1939.  I read it to my students the day after the 2016 presidential election, and I read it to my students again today (the day after the 2020 election).  It is one of my favorite stories about a writer.  Its hero, Jaroslav Hladik, in the midst of political catastrophe, races against his own death to finish his magnum opus.  Hladik's prayer to God reflects the most writerly anxiety there is: he needs more time.

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Jorge Luis Borges, "The Secret Miracle"

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Secret Miracle"

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