"El Milagro Secreto"

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 19

Scope and content:

Holograph manuscript "The Secret Miracle" by Jorge Luis Borges titled and signed in black ink, and leaves numbered by Borges. Many deletions, variants, and interpolations. It offers an invaluable look at the changes he made to one of his favorite writings.

The original holograph manuscript of this story was published in Sur no. 101 (February 1943), then reprinted in the first edition of Ficciones(1944). Proof of the esteem in which Borges held this story is its inclusion in the new edition of his La muerte y la brujula (1951) and in his Antologia Personal (1961). It was followed by its recreation in other Borges collected prose books of similar literary reputation.Two of the four leaves are reproduced in Daniel Balderston, How Borges wrote Charlottesville: UVA Press, 2018. Balderston focused on Borge's use of geometrical symbols to indicate where marginal additions are to be inserted into the text.

Language:

Spanish; Castilian

Subjects:

Manuscripts (documents)

Access and use