ABSTRACT
Zeit für die Bombe (“Time for the bomb”) is an award-winning hyperfiction written and programmed by the German author Susanne Berkenheger. 1 Since its publication in 1997, it has fueled many debates and comments but few “exhaustive” readings. If we consider the extent to which the critical discourse on hyperfiction has resorted to the paradigms of deconstruction, fragmentation and de-coherence, we realize that we cannot avoid questioning the feasibility of such an exhaustive analysis, which requires a thorough reading of the texts and full activation of the links contained in a work. In this chapter, I will demonstrate the possibility, interest, and limits of an exhaustive analysis, by relying on a digital reading methodology I have developed over the last few years.
