Deciphering the plays of William Shakespeare in a school essay was apparently not enough for two students, who wrote a book with phrases that sum up Twitter and satirical works of literature.
The “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter”, which will be released by Penguin in November in the United Kingdom is a collection of 20 irreverent comments, profane and sometimes on bright ideas and themes for each of 60 selected classics of literature.

“It’s funny if you have read the books,” said Rensin, who read all the novels described until the age of 19. Rensin is studying English and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, and another author of the book, Aciman, has a degree in Literature.

American students had announced the launch of the book as early as June. The “tweets” from Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman combine English language with the abbreviations of text messaging by adolescents.

The authors make it clear that the book is not intended to help students understand the “Paradise Lost” of Milton, or “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka, but to provoke laughter. Take for example the “Inferno” of Dante, – which the authors summarized in entries on Twitter up to 140 characters: “I’m having a crisis of middle age. Lost in the woods. I should have brought my iPhone.”
The goal was to make people laugh, not offend the defenders of great literature, the authors say.

Via: Folha.