Jorge Luis Borges and the theme of justifying one’s life

In Jorge Luis Borges's "Borges y yo", "yo" writes that "yo vivo, yo me dejo vivir, para que Borges pueda tramar su literatura y esa literatura me justifica." Now the same idea of justifying oneself appears in Borges's "El milagro secreto", when Jaromir Hladik addresses God as he waits for his execution: "Para llevar a término ese drama, que puede justificarme y justificarte, requiero un año más." And then the theological theses of Nils Runeberg in Borges's "Tres versiones de Judas" "justificaron y desbarataron su vida." The repetition reinforces my sense in "Borges y yo" that Borges himself really was concerned about the issue of justifying his life as a writer. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 29 July 2023)