Con David Tennant ed 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 risposta europea a You've got Mail.
Due milioni di copie vendute in Germania fino ad oggi. E acquistato da trentacinque editori in tutto il mondo, Love Virtually del romanziere austriaco Daniel Glattauer, è sulla buona strada per diventare un fenomeno editoriale globale.
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?
Adattato da Eileen Horne.
Prodotto da Clive Brill
Una produzione del Pacifico per BBC Radio 4.
Livello di ascolto consigliato: CAE, CPE, da B2 a C2 (da intermedio superiore ad avanzato), IELTS 6.5 o superiore
