The texts I have read are critical reviews of the book “Tweet di un discorso amoroso” by Roberto Cotroneo. All this reviews are about his book and his relationship with social networks and the book “A Lover’s Discourse Fragment” by Roland Barthes. First of all, Cotroneo’s text is a stream of consciousness of his reflections, organized in “tweets”, that is short phrases or sentences “lost, or forgotten in the web”, in social networks as Twitter or Facebook. A Tweet, in particular, is a post or status update on Twitter, that allows messages of 140 characters. So, the narrator wants to express his reflections about love in a series of tweets. The book hasn’t got a plot and makes the reader to reflect about love and communication in the contemporary society. While Barthes’ text recalls somebody who speaks amorously in front of his/her lover, this text shares the same premise, but in this case the protagonist doesn’t speak.

“The necessity for this book is to be found in the following consideration: that the lover's discourse is today of an extreme solitude. This discourse is spoken, perhaps, by thousands of subjects (who knows?), but warranted by no one;”

“The description of the lover's discourse has been replaced by its simulation”

Roland Barthes, “A Lover’s Discourse Fragment”

The dramatic monologue is made by a single person, who is not the poet, and addresses and interacts with one or more other people in order to reveal to the reader, in a way that enhances its interest, the speaker's temperament and character, a tweet is made by a single person, and expresses his feelings, emotions and also love. This person is the only author of the tweet but he/she can also quotes some sentences from writers,ecc…

These quotations, in literature, have always a specific meaning or a specific function in order to render the message universal for the reader, but in tweets quotations instead can be taken from any other source, and it is the author of the tweet who decides his/her own meaning.

So dramatic monologue and Tweets represent two different ways to express our reflections, emotions: While through the dramatic monologue the narrator wants to express his universal message for the reader, a Tweet is the symbol of our emotions, passions and reflections, paradigm of contemporary society.