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7817680 No.7817680 [Reply] [Original]

I'm going crazy. what is the short story I am thinking of? I read it like five years ago and cannot remember the author's name. It was a scanned PDF and I don't recall the source.

A man leaves his hotel at night and walks around a town or something by himself. he eventually gets accosted by a knife-wielding? thief? Cant really remember. I feel like it was originally written in Spanish, and I remember the author described the air at night as "feminine."

Any guesses to what I'm thinking of?

>> No.7817685

kind of??? Did it have a female narrator? and did the man get his arm cut off or something? I might be thinking of another story

>> No.7817686

>>7817680
I've never read anything by him, but the knife-wielding gaucho bit makes me think it's something by Borges.

>> No.7817691

>>7817685

my instinct is that the narrator was male. I also think that the climax was basically that the thief didnt do anything, as in let the narrator go? It's been so long I couldnt be sure

>> No.7817693

>>7817691
ah shit sorry m8 no clue. Good luck though

>> No.7817711

>>7817686
Then you really haven't read anything by him

>> No.7817868

>>7817680
could it be under the volcano? ive never read the book but the movie is similar