Avec David Tennant et 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.
La réponse européenne à You've got Mail.
Deux millions d'exemplaires vendus à ce jour en Allemagne. Et racheté par trente-cinq éditeurs à travers le monde, Love Virtually du romancier autrichien Daniel Glattauer, est en passe de devenir un phénomène éditorial mondial.
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?
Adapté par Eileen Horne.
Produit par Clive Brill
Une production Pacifique pour BBC Radio 4.
Niveau d'écoute suggéré : CAE, CPE, B2 à C2 (intermédiaire supérieur à avancé), IELTS 6.5 ou supérieur
