ABSTRACT

This chapter explains an essay that considers seven cultural products taken as samples from Spanish-American culture of the second half of the twentieth century, with the purpose of showing the accountability of multiple internal focalization across different media: novel, play, film, and hypertext. The essay then examines the connection between the narrative technique of multiple internal focalization and the use of different technological supports in these various works. Denevi's novel displays an homologous structure, but here it seems possible to catch a glimpse of truth in order to help the reader solve the mystery: contradictory versions do not prevent this possibility, and even allow one to reach this goal, since they include part of this truth. In the narrative hypertext the possibility of changing perspective is given through the use of 'links' that allow the reader to open new pages by moving the mouse over specific words, normally highlighted, or underlined, in different colors.