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| URL of Work
| http://www.javeriana.edu.co/gabriella_infinita/
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| Title of Work
| Gabriella Infinita
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| Author
| Jaime Alejandro Rodríguez Ruiz
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| Year of Publication
| 2002
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| Language
| Spanish
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| Description
| Gabriella Infinita, a metamorphical work, is a lesson in the evolution of the internet. Three versions of the text are available: Novel, Hypertext and Hypermedia. In the tale, Gabriella arrives at the apartment of her lover, Frederico, the author, only to find him disappeared. In his stead, she has only his things, his writings, his clippings, his recordings. At the same time, in a parallel narrative, a group of people try to escape a building. They are trapped, moreso than they think, for they are characters in one of his stories. Since Rodríguez Ruiz made all of these versions available on the web (with commentaries), they serve as an excellent study in the forms themselves. In no way a lesson in progress, the adaptations and translations of his own tale reveal the strengths and limitations of these forms.
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| Additional Notes
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| Any one of the versions could be archived individually, though the collection is an interesting and important study in adaptation across electronic literary forms.
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