Roberto Cotroneo, "Tweet di un discorso amoroso"

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T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

The new book written by Roberto Cotroneo is Tweet di un discorso amoroso. It is a collection of impressions, thoughts, aphorisms about life but particularly a collection of letters to a woman, which the writer wrote in April 2012, and now represent the whole book.

As a consequence of this the book is an essay, a narration, a private diary which searches in the purity of writing, a way toward new sentiments.

Roberto Cotroneo, as J. Alfred Prufrock, the protagonist of T.S. Eliot's love song, reflects about love, but he thinks about it in the time of technology, the time of Twitter and Facebook.

J. Alfred Prufrock, the main character of the poem is also the speaker: he is a common middle aged man. T. S. Eliot chooses this type of character because he is generally the most frequent in modernist literature, and also because a middle aged man has already lived an important part of his life and so he can reflect on it. The character secretly loves a woman but he does not have the courage to reveal himself; he is timid, worried about what people think about him and always pessimistic: he isn't able to take a decision.

T.S. Eliot chooses the dramatic monologue because he wants to focus the attention of the reader on consciousness: he uses the juxtaposition of scenes as it happens in fiction to create a dramatic effect; so in the song there are no stanzas and the rhyme scheme is irregular (free verse).

On the other hand Roberto Cotroneo considers love a complex research of causes and consequences which is impossible to conclude. In his opinion love is only a final sensation because in contemporary society social networks have changed the way of communicate and for this reason also love is a phrase posted on Facebook's or Twitter's timeline.

The book "Tweet di un discorso amoroso" is a collection of 76 fragments of thoughts which slide and are quickly read by people, so it can well represent Facebook's home page in which people can post thoughts and see or comment the ones of the others.

Finally the writer thinks that maybe, nowadays nobody is able to make a love declaration: it is easier to make it through a social network.