I’m Your Horse in the Night (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Luisa Valenzuela
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: A city in Argentina
- Principal Characters: Chiquita, Beto
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Prisoners, Revolutionaries, Love or romance, Police, Twentieth century, Dreams, Women, Loyalty, Dancing or dancers, Argentina or Argentineans, Guerrillas or guerrilla warfare, South America or South Americans, Torture
- Locales: Argentina
The Story
“I’m Your Horse in the Night” is narrated in the first-person voice through the consciousness of a woman who is in love with a persecuted revolutionary who calls himself Beto and is involved in secret activities. Beto visits the woman, whom he calls Chiquita, at night to avoid getting caught by the police. In the story, the narrator re-creates in her mind his last visit as she is imprisoned and tortured because of her relationship with him and her refusal to betray him.
The story begins in the middle of the night, in an Argentine city. The narrator is...
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