{"id":421,"date":"2007-02-01T02:19:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T01:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=421"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:15:33","slug":"the-last-messages-1000-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/421","title":{"rendered":"The Last Messages (1000 SMS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chawedrosin.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/viimeisetviestit.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"sms\" width=\"192\" height=\"285\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"10\" \/>A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Last Messages&#8221; tells the story of a fictitious information-technology executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.<br \/>\nHis messages, and the replies \u2014 roughly 1,000 altogether \u2014 are listed in chronological order in the 332-page novel written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala. The texts are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in regular SMS traffic.<br \/>\nHard work for translators.<\/p>\n<p>Questo \u00e8 il materiale di cui \u00e8 composto il nuovo romanzo dello scrittore finlandese Hannu Luntiala.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Last Messages&#8221; racconta la storia di un funzionario di una compagnia informatica finlandese che lascia il proprio lavoro e viaggia attraverso l&#8217;Europa e l&#8217;India, mantenendosi in contatto con amici e parenti soltanto via SMS.<br \/>\nI suoi messaggi e le relative risposte, in totale circa 1000, sono riportati in ordine cronologico nelle 332 pagine del romanzo cos\u00ec come sono, con errori, locuzioni gergali e abbreviazioni.<br \/>\nSar\u00e0 dura per i traduttori.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070124\/ap_on_hi_te\/techbit_text_message_novel\">Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland. &#8220;The Last Messages&#8221; tells the story of a fictitious information-technology executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/421\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letteratura","category-tecnologia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19240,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/19240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}