Elegant, sensual, brimming with astute observation and recollection, Call Me By Your Name is the contemporary classic of love, identity, fate and memory. Both are bright and questioning the hook of desire is soon caught fast.Īndré Aciman – who so mesmerised with his autobiographical account of family and childhood in Out of Egypt – delivers a pitch-perfect elegy to a perfect lost summer and its long, slow shadow. Andr Aciman on writing Call Me by Your Name: 'I fell in love with Elio and Oliver' The novelist on his famous romance, initially scribbled as a distraction from the novel he was supposed. Oliver is worldly, handsome, a seductive contrast to Elio’s own naivety. Elio – 17 years old, precocious, the son of an academic – finds himself falling for the older Oliver, a postdoctoral scholar completing his manuscript on Heraclitus at the beautiful home of Elio’s family. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference.
It’s the mid-1980s the place is the Italian Riviera. Emily Brontë’s novel tells of the obsessive, destructive love between Heathcliff, a foundling, and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of the man who brings him home one day. Andr Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera.
A coming-of-age story, a coming-out story, a Proustian meditation on time and desire, a love letter, an invocation and something of an epitaph, Call Me by Your Name is also an open question.' - Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times
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