How do we define the literary work in the digital age? Can literature account for the changes produced by the digital? How does the sensory remodeling of our daily experience affect our perception of space? What is the role of the author in conveying ideas? As this article purposes to show, hypertextual literature, which emerged in the early 1990s, offers a privileged analytical framework for thinking about the issues of identity, body and space in the advent of the digital. In our re-reading of Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson in light of these questions, it will be necessary to determine how the opacification of traditional patterns of reading in the digital work produces a new form of subjectivity.