The three texts are reviews about one of Roberto Cotroneo's books: Tweet di un discorso amoroso. It is about a love story that is narrated by the writer through a collection of tweets that are one of the most frequent contemporary way of speaking and it is defined as a starting point for a reflection about love, literature and the contemporary change in writing and in people's vision of life, as the quotations of the second review show.

As E.Stefanelli writes, the title reminds to a famous R. Barthes' essay Fragments d'un discours amoureux, as well as the foreword; indeed in R.Cotroneo's book there is a person who is talking to himself while s/he is in front of his/her no-speaking lover, but it cannot be defined a book, because it has not got a plot, it just collets people's thoughts that are usually short unconnected phrases. They have different topics, no rigid rules (people write them with "smiles", with lots of abbreviations, question marks, exclamation marks, ...) and their function is to make clear people's feelings and emotions while they're writing. Therefore it is totally subjective and no-logic, and that are the reasons why M.Benedetto defines it a sort of stream of consciousness.

But it also can be compared with a dramatic monologue.

The first big difference between them is that while the dramatic monologue is a long text written in poetry and so it has got a noble language and lots of high literary quotations, most of tweets have got a simply and common language and a mixture of important/high quotations (as for example taken from famous speeches, books, poems, ...) and low quotations (pop-songs, quotations from films or animated cartoons, ...).

Another important difference is that while in the dramatic monologue the speaking voice is not the narrator, in tweets it coincides with him/her because s/he wants to share his/her thoughts or emotions.

But they also have some analogies. First of all they both are addressed to an interlocutor and, besides, they deal with the interior time in which past and present do not exist, or to say it better, they are on the same layer (from E.Stefanelli's review) and they allow the reader to understand the speaking voice's attitude and personality.