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Analysis of the text

 

The first text is a review, written by Elisabetta Stefanelli. The text present the new book of Roberto Cotroneo Tweet di un discorso amoroso. Roberto Cotreoneo wrote about importance of tweets, being consider a text, that is something remaining in time, our interior time.


The second text is an article (published on 09 March 2013) of the site affaritaliani.it about Roberto Cotroneo's book Tweet di un discorso amoroso. There is an introduction about the book, a presentation about the author Roberto Cotroneo and three extracts from the book.

The first extract consists of the example of a suitcase, in which everyone puts personal objects used in a past time, but they remain in the present. Today people replace the old objects with different new objects, this to explain that people live in a short time, without everything, without thoughts and etc. The second excerpt concerns writing and Roberto Cotroneo ideas about writing. Finally the third extract expands the theme of research of something new, new words.

 

The third text is a review, explaining contents and the purpose of the book Tweet di un discorso amoroso. The book relates a stream of consciousness, made by Roberto Cotroneo's tweets, which can be put in relation with every people life today. It reports the reality of present people, the relationship between two lovers or friends through social networks (for example Facebook or Twitter).

 

Nowadays people need to have virtual interrelations to feel themselves someone, to feel a stable contact with somebody. There is another important aspect, faced by R. Cotroneo in his book, and it is the used of social network today, there isn't a really concept of time, or better, the time taken to be consider is only the present, because people express their emotions or feelings in the same time in which they write theirs.

 

The necessity to write one's thoughts in a social network can be see how a dramatic monologue, because people transmit their personality throughout tweets or reflection, made with a flux of consciousness. These sentences can be associated with The Love Song of J. A. Prufrock of T.S. Eliot because they reports the same techniques of the stream of consciousness and feelings.