Abstract
This article about the novel Sueños digitales (2000) by Edmundo Paz-Soldán focuses on the transformation of the identity of the protagonist, Sebastián, who finds himself in a virtual world full of simulations. This study demonstrates the transformation of the identity through surveillance, isolation, and alienation based on the theory of Jean Baudrillard. Not only the protagonist but also other characters are presented as an illusion, which reflects the characteristics of contemporary subjects in a postmodern society dominated by hyperreality. Likewise, the mirage and the multiplication of the image are duplicated in the virtual simulation to the point of revealing a subject converted into a simulation. Although more than twenty years have passed, the novel reaches a greater resonance in today
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