The Secret Miracle (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Luis Borges
- First Published: 1944
- Type of Plot: Antistory
- Time of Work: 1939
- Setting: Prague, Czechoslavakia
- Principal Characters: Jaromir Hladik, Julius Rothe
- Genres: Short fiction, Antistory
- Subjects: Authors or writers, World War II, Dreams, 1930’s, Libraries or librarians, God, Jews or Jewish life, Miracles, Nazism or Nazis, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Time, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians, Chess or chess players
- Locales: Prague, Czechoslovakia
The Story
An extract from the Koran that serves as prologue to the story hints at the miracle of the title. It tells of a person whom God has made die over the course of a hundred years. To this person, the time that has passed has been “a day, or part of a day.”
The story itself begins on the night of March 14, 1939, in an apartment in Prague. It is the home of Jaromir Hladik, an author, whose principal works include an unfinished play and two scholarly volumes, one entitled Vindication of Eternity, the other a study of Jewish sources of the seventeenth...
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