#CentQuarante
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Imagine a new kind of book, recreating a famous novel
by collecting on twitter every tweet quoting from that novel.
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Imagine a new kind of book, recreating a famous novel
by collecting on twitter every tweet quoting from that novel.
Working alongside a talented webmaster, I collected the tweets
and recreated three novels.
and recreated three novels.
Madame Bovary, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Old Man and the Sea.
I was glad to see that people tweet so much traditional novels,
making these books actual summaries of the stories.
I placed each tweet at the exact same place it is in the actual text,
making these books actual summaries of the stories.
I placed each tweet at the exact same place it is in the actual text,
and the blank spaces are the parts that were not tweeted.
This project aims to give us a fresh look on these classics,
and draw attention to how they can interact with today's society.
Confront these two worlds, and create something new.
Reinventing literary works using digital information,
highlighting modern-day thoughts using texts from the past.
and draw attention to how they can interact with today's society.
Confront these two worlds, and create something new.
Reinventing literary works using digital information,
highlighting modern-day thoughts using texts from the past.
