How do imagine the Literature of the future? In which forms will it be written and divulged?
Don’t worry, it won’t be reduced to a mathematic formula as the title seems to hint. Yet, it refers to a new formula invented by Penguin UK in collaboration with the reality game company Six To Start.
They tried to answer the questions above by exploring all the possibilities offered by the new media and most of all by the Net. The result? An intriguing, captivating and thrilling project called We tell stories.
Started on March 18, We tell stories is a digital writing project where six different authors will tell six different stories based on six classics. No limits to the use of technology nor to creativity: new forms of stories are taking shape right before our eyes, taking advantage of the interactivity and connectivity that characterize the web.
Readers can follow the adventures of the protagonists of the stories through Google Maps, on Twitter, blogs and so on, each story with a different method of presentation. New forms of stories also create new forms of reading experiences, a dream for all passionate readers and a new motivation for all the people who think reading is boring.
We tell stories is an ambitious writing project and its success is growing faster and faster. It has opened the way to new writing experimentations and new forms of novels and literature. In a world dominated by velocity and immediacy, these stories can represent a new approach to literature and reading, too many times considered as something slow, long, gruelling and static.
So, enjoy the stories and pay attention to all the little clues disseminated here and there: a secret and mysterious seventh story will unwind, with a familiar girl named Alice as protagonist. Help her on her way and you will have he chance to win the Penguin Complete Classic Library, a precious collection of the greatest books ever written.
Maybe you too will lose yourself in the fabulous world of literature, newly Alice of the 21st century, captured by the magic of words.
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