IREFERRED IN MY INTRODUCTION to Georg Lukács' observation concerning the parallel development in the eighteenth century of the novel and the modern conception of history. Hegelian historicism found its appropriate literary form (or, rather, produced it) in the realistic novel. The Borgesian “modest history” that concluded the previous chapter and the magical realist ghosts that will appear in the next one are mitigating circumstances – disruptions of linear, causal, Hegelian (“realistic”) narrative structures. In this chapter, I consider a number of realistic novels as well as other “provisional” schemes, to use Borges′ term cited in my epigraph, that purport to record history: newspapers and photojournalism.