INTRODUCTION
The hypertext I
have to analyze is “Damascene”. It’s a story of a man (Lord Nikolich) who wants
to build for his daughter (Miss Attilia) a church to marry in and a place to
live in with her fiancé. Therefore, they take the two best builders of that
time (John the Ladder and John the Damascene). The hypertext tells us everything
that father and daughter have to do to obtain this and the difficulties they
have to face.
To start I will
say that I didn’t choose neither this author nor this hypertext. Firstly I had
chosen Edward Falco and his hypertext "Charmin' Cleary" because I
read the work that former students of Hypertext did before. The indecent
assault from a teacher to a student and the different points of view of people
concerning this seemed me a very interesting and current topic to work on. But
the website where I read the hypertext, stopped to work correctly so I decided
to change it. Finally I chose Milorad Pavic and his hypertext “Damascene”
because I had already analyzed his hypertext “The Glass Snail”, and it seemed
to me interesting to analyze another hypertext from the same author. Besides, when
I started to read it, I saw that it was very similar to the other concerning
structure and links, and that attracted me even more. All this contributed to
decide this author and this hypertext.
My work
constitutes an analysis as complete as possible about the hypertext I read.
Afterwards I’ll make a conclusion where I’ll explain my point of view about the
hypertext.