"Tatuaje is a short detective novel that narrates the story of Rolo Diaz, a poet and journalist who, almost by chance, discovers his true vocation: being a private investigator. One day he is appointed by a mysterious man to find Melquiades, the trickster of Sonora market who has gone missing. While searching for Melquiades, Rolo Diaz is kidnapped and, after waking up from a hallucinatory dream, he discovers he now has a tattoo on his chest. What does it mean? Why has he been marked? Trying to answer these questions, the reader is invited to navigate the text.
Tatuaje explores different narrative formats and possibilities. It is a mashup of urban myths, dreams, and detective stories as well as media objects brought together with a Web design reminiscent of the 1990s. Tatuaje is a story within a story, a transmedia novel composed of different texts, e-mails, short messages, maps, images, and sounds assembled for the reader to manipulate, explore, and discover." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3
C3 - Web PY - 2014 LA - Spanish M3 - Hypertext, Multimedia, Novel UR - https://the-next.eliterature.org/works/807/0/0/ DB - The NEXT Y2 - 2025-04-04 ER -