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Fri 12 Dec 2009Novel tweetment for classics
Two young American students have managed to compress some 60 ‘Great Reads’ into a slim Penguin paperback of ‘Twitterature’, writes FIONA McCANN
‘I’M HAVIN’ a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.” Recognise these famous opening lines? They’re from Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, duh, but in, like, a new “translation” for the 2.0 generation of web-speaking social networkers. Those responsible are Chicago college students Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin, and Dante’s Inferno is just one of the classics to get the tweet-ment by these two in their new book, Twitterature: the World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter.
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