Mit David Tennant und Emilia Fox, Love Virtually by Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer is a thoroughly modern epistolary novel with one difference - its protagonists Emmi Rothner and Leo Leike communicate exclusively by email.
Die europäische Antwort auf You've got Mail.
Bisher wurden in Deutschland zwei Millionen Exemplare verkauft. Und von 35 Verlagen auf der ganzen Welt gekauft, Love Virtually des österreichischen Schriftstellers Daniel Glattauer ist auf dem besten Weg, ein globales Verlagsphänomen zu werden.
They "meet" when Emmi mistakenly sends an e-mail to Leo's inbox. A romance ensues that allows them to live out a shared secret life far removed from their day-to-day existences. But to what extent does it rely on fantasy and escapism, and will it survive a real-life meeting?
The problem is...Emmi (a modern Madame Bovary) is married....
Have email, Facebook, texting and the like created a generation of isolated young people who prefer to communicate remotely - who may be in fact afraid to engage in face to face contact to find love? Is it possible to fall in love with someone you've never met? Does a virtual affair 'count' as adultery? What are the implications of the fact that we can pretend to be anyone in cyberspace?
Adaptiert von Eileen Horne.
Produziert von Clive Brill
Eine pazifische Produktion für BBC Radio 4.
Empfohlenes Hörniveau: CAEAnwesend CPE, B2 bis C2 (obere Mittelstufe bis Fortgeschrittene), IELTS 6.5 oder höher
