Abstract

The interactive digital novel “Victory Garden” by Stuart Moulthrop is a modern reading of Jorge Luis Borges’ story, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” examining cyberspace in the form of an electronic rhizome. However, upon entering this digital novel, readers are made aware of the active engagement required to advance in the story. This ergodic or interactive nature of the electronic labyrinth calls for a revision of labyrinths in the digital domain because we are now in front of a virtual rhizome. The new role of readers, the use of cyberspace, and the language employed to refer to it are examined hereafter from a semiotic perspective as they appear in Moulthrop’s e-novel, which stands as an electronic illustration of the endless forking paths that pervade our everyday life.