To the Bitter Ends
Exploring agonistic text-reader-relationships in "Choose Your Own Adventure Books"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.57579/2024.3Keywords:
Chose Your Own Adventure, Edward Packard, Interactive fictionAbstract
This essay takes a look at Bantam's Choose Your Own Adventure book series, specifically at its first instalment, Edward Packard's The Cave of Time (1979). Similar to Cortázar's Rayuela (Hopskotch), Packard's narrative is organised in small segments at the end of which readers must make a choice to determine how to continue the branching story and to ultimately reach one of many endings. Drawing from theories of reading literary texts and cyberfiction proposed by R. Barthes and E. Aarseth, the paper seeks to come to an understanding of how readers may approach such interactive fiction and which role 'cheating' plays in it.
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