On Christmas Eve 1938, Borges had a serious accident. As he was going upstairs, he bumped into an open vertically hinged window that had just been painted. Despite aggressive treatment, the wound became infected and Borges suffered from sepsis. For about a week, Borges suffered from high fever and hallucinations. He even lost his ability to speak. After the operation, he wandered between life and death without consciousness for a month. Borges mentioned this accident more than once on different occasions. He gave a detailed account of the incident in his "Autobiographical Essays". In the "Autobiographical Essays", he recorded the time in 1938, but in the novel In "The South", Borges wrote that the time of Dalman's accident was February 1939. Monegal, the author of Borges's biography "Life in the Labyrinth", believes that "Borges changed the date, perhaps to avoid Christmas. the religious significance of the festival, and alluded to the exact time of his own recovery." Regardless of the specific time when this event occurred, this period was of milestone significance in Borges's entire creative career. While suffering from illness, Borges was worried that he would never lose the ability to read and write. He asked his mother to read Lewis's "From the Silent Planet" to him. After listening to a page or two, he cried because he I'm glad I can still understand. After Borges recovered from his illness, he began to try a style of writing that he had never written before. "If I try to write a review now and fail, then my intelligence is over, but if I try to write something I have never actually written and fail, If it fails, the situation will not be the same, so that we can even make some preparations for the final revelation." Many years later, the famous short story "South" written by Borges was autobiographical in nature. It was an allusion to the accident in 1938. The hallucinations Borges had during his illness were inextricably linked to "South". .