TIME

In this hypertext I’m going to focus on the aspect of Time. We could say that as in every kind of story there exists a real or external time and on the other hand a fictitious or intern time.

REAL TIME

The time it takes to read a work of these characteristics depends on the ability and understanding of the reader. It is a hypertext quite simple in structure and also it is not too long though a lot of things and events are recounted.

It has eight links which lead to eight different pages, two of them are just pages that contain connective links, it means the hypertext has only six argumentative pages so it takes no more than one hour or less to read it -unless the text is not in your own language and you have to look in the dictionary, then it takes more time- but in general, it’s quite simple and it won’t take you too much time to read it.

FICTITIOUS TIME

The first chapter, The Builders”, places us at a certain time and space, specifically in the Serbia of the end of the 18th century and principles of the 19^th century. Thus, all the history is in past except when the characters are talking, then is in present.

The story follows an argumentative thread but its extension is not expressed in detail. Extension can be guessed but without accuracy near the end of the reading when a builder says to one of the main characters that “ they have built in one year which is usually done in a period of three”.

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