El hipertexto y la novela: lecturas, lectores

In this brief analysis of the relation between the hypertext and the world of the literarycreation and reception, we will try to analyse some instances in which the genre of the hyper–novel, usedin several occasions by many authors of 20th century literature, has anticipated a few formalcharacteristics of the hypertext. At the same time, we will attempt to emphasize the centrality and thecontinuous development of the figure of the reader and his characteristics, in light of some of thetheoretical foundations of the 20th century reader-oriented literary theories.