Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman (PDF)

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Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by James IvoryWINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARDNominated for Four OscarsA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club PickAn Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre 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’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time.

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⭐I’ve seen the movie countless times and listened to the audiobook (voiced by Armie Hammer). I listened to the audiobook because I was under a time crunch for a book club. However, I loved it so much that I wanted my own copy to read and leave personal notes/annotations to look back on. This book tells an incredible story that made me look at love and my own adolescence in new, beautiful ways. It takes a lot for me to become invested in a book, but I could honestly read this book within a day or two over and over again. It just takes me to the exact time and place the story is set in and leaves me romanticizing and pondering my own life. Plus, this is a beautiful copy. I highly recommend you give it a try!

⭐Spoilery”Twenty years was yesterday, and yesterday was just earlier this morning, and morning seemed light years away.”Call Me By Your Name is a superlative novel that meticulously and comprehensively looks at the human condition from the folly of youth to the introspective later years. Told almost entirely from the stream of consciousness mind of a seventeen year old Elio, who simultaneously possesses intelligence beyond his years whilst embodying the insouciance of youth and trafficking in the same inane fickleness of the average teen in matters of the heart, and in him Aciman’s crafted a character that is quintessentially relatable.I was immediately transported back to my own teenage years. I remember being that person, though Elio is leaps and bounds more intelligent at seventeen than I could ever hope to be then or now. The profundity of his insights are staggering and keenly observant. But the games are the same, the angst the same, the intensity the same and, most importantly, the devotion the same.”There is a law somewhere that says that when one person is thoroughly smitten with the other, the other must unavoidably be smitten as well. […] Love, which exempts no one who’s loved from loving, Francesca’s words in the Inferno. Just wait and be hopeful. I was hopeful, though perhaps this was what I had wanted all along. To wait forever.”First loves are oftentimes the hardest to let go of; they leave an indelible mark. For Elio, Oliver is that person. Oliver, the doctoral student who came to stay with him and his parents one summer in Italy, left a watermark on Elio’s soul. Six unforgettable weeks and an intimacy forged that some have no hope of ever attaining. They lived. They loved. They became a part of each other.People talk about the “simplicity” of youth but to my mind it was never simple. Elio has never been in love before and when you don’t know a thing it’s hard to know what to do with it, how to care for it, how to keep it. At seventeen he can’t possibly understand the rarity of his connection with Oliver, so he tells himself there will be another and there are, that it was never intended to last and maybe it wasn’t, that is was a summer fling, but who’s to say that makes it any less seminal?That’s what Aciman has done so masterfully with this novel; is it or isn’t it? Aciman has crafted his own Mona Lisa with Elio.”All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”Life goes on, people drift in and out of our lives; some leave a lasting impression while others are evanescent. Oliver left a space to be certain, but Elio left one too and maybe those spaces are capricious depending on time and space.”-how we move through time, how time moves through us, how we change and keep changing and come back to the same.”The ebbs and flows of life transmogrify memories; make them sharper at times and less so at others, depending on where one is in life. Again, I think this is the genius of this novel: it’s not a singular experience. I’ve no doubt if I reread it in 5 or 10 yrs I’ll have a different interpretation; a change in perspective and the whole thing looks completely different and I feel like the same can be said of Elio. Will it always come back to Oliver or is that they’re in the same place where so much occurred twenty years ago? That place that meant so much from the berm to Mafalda and his parents to the bookstore to playing the guitar to paradise to afternoon naps and lazy days and nights spent f***ing each other’s brains out. Is it so much Oliver or it is the desire to recapture that place, that time? The romantic in me wants to wallow in the heartbreak and vilify Aciman for countermanding the rules of romancelandia, but to simplify this novel in such a way, to make it solely about loss is a disservice to the narrative. It’s more than that.”Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”The complexities of Call Me By Your Name left me feeling mawkish, clearly, but it also made me contemplative. Maybe I missed the point and it is solely a novel of love and loss with the primary objective being bittersweet heartbreak, but I choose to believe (this time) that Aciman deliberately penned a novel to make every reader take stock and cherish what they have, what they have had and what they will have. There aren’t very many novels I can say the same about.

⭐Such a great love story.

⭐I had watched the movie first and lovedddd it and then found out it was a book so ofc I had to read it!!! The book describes so much, you really can see into Elios thoughts and how he thinks! It is an amazing book, get ittt!

⭐It was beautiful, the book felt brand new and well kept.

⭐Romantic and very thoughtful read. Perfect for the summer time.

⭐This book is:CaptivatingDevastatingPoeticDreamyTimelessEndearingIntimateSensoryConsumingLovingThe list could go on and on. When you open this book, from page one, you are immediately transported into the mind of Elio’s “love letter”The prose, the writing style, the imagery and the sensory of living and loving through the characters is overwhelmingly good.I think many authors I have read, have tried to concoct this writing, but none of succeeded until Aciman.Shortly after reading the book, while it was entirely fresh, I viewed the film. The symphony the two have with one another is just as majestic as what Elio and Oliver have.Some have agreed that this story is “problematic”I see no problems. I see no sign of grooming or non consent.This rawness, it’s very primal. Its what everyone dreams of.,The sexiness, the chemistry, and to throw in the scene and backdrop of Italy to tie in the romance and bring it to a whole new level of its own.As an elder millennial, seeing the state of worlds view on the LGBT community, I wish, I wish, I wish, this support, and benevolence existed in my youth. Elio’s father alone, would have been enough for anyone who was in Elio’s shoes, my shoes, anyone in the community’s shoes, who was feeling “less than”This book is a dream in a dream. The passion, that the characters share and the buildup of the passion, it’s unmatched, in any book I have consumed. But even though it can be a perceivable dream, it’s raw, it’s real and is possible, is human, and can reach out and touch you and hurt you all the same.

⭐This book is amazing. I’ve never been much of a reader but I finished this book in three days. The book gives so much more detail than the movie does.

⭐Ich habe gerade den Roman zu lesen beendet und ich weiß gar nicht, wohin mit mir. Das sitzt richtig tief. Natürlich bin ich über den Film zu dem Buch gekommen, habe das Buch zuerst begonnen, zwischendurch den Film in einer Vorpremiere OmU sehen können und es jetzt, wie gesagt, beendet. Wie eine Rezensentin vor mir musste ich zwischendurch das Buch beiseitelegen, weil ich dann doch überwältigt wurde. Ich finde es auch nicht leicht zu lesen. Für mich persönlich wäre das keine Sommerlektüre für den Strand. Dazu ist es neben der ganzen Poesie auch einfach zu traurig und komplex. Und das nochmal eine Stufe intensiver als im Film, der ja erst gegen Ende so richtig zubeißt. Der Roman ist eine Introspektive und eine Erinnerung zwanzig Jahre zurück.”It is the first thing I remember about him, and I can hear it still today. Later! I shut my eyes, say the word, and I’m back in Italy, so many years ago, walking down the tree-lined driveway, watching him step out of the cab, billowy blue shirt, wide-open collar, sunglasses, straw hat, skin everywhere. Suddenly he’s shaking my hand, handing me his backpack, removing his suitcase from the trunk of the cab, asking if my father is home.”Den ganzen Roman bestimmt von Anfang an ein melancholisch-sehnsüchtiger Grundton, der sich bis zum Ende hält und sich eher noch steigert. Ein Sehnen, das nie zu Ende geht. Das ganze Leben lang. Letztlich geht es hier um die Wirkung der Zeit auf die Menschen und ihre Gefühle und darum, dass ein Paradies nur in der Erinnerung aufrechterhalten werden kann. Darum, wie immer wieder Teile der Persönlichkeit herausgerissen und immer neue Schichten darübergelegt wurden, wie bei einer sehr alten Kirche. Darum wie man sich dabei oberflächlich verändert oder die äußeren Bedingungen, aber vielleicht tief unter den neuen Schichten noch einen Rest Ihrer Liebe von damals entdeckt werden kann. Etwas, was sie geprägt hat, auf der sie sich alles gründet.Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.Das Buch ist in vier Kapitel eingeteilt und die Geschichte der beiden Männer wird aus subjektiver Sicht Elios erzählt im Rückblick 20 Jahre später.Im ersten trifft Elio (17) auf Oliver (24), den amerikanischen Doktoranden, der über sechs Wochen in Ihrem Haus in Italien verbringen soll, um dort zu arbeiten. Vom ersten Moment an richtet sich eine fast obsessive Aufmerksamkeit auf Oliver. Jeder Schritt, jede Aussage, jedes Verhalten Olivers wird analysiert und interpretiert, jede Stelle seines Körpers gescannt. Wir sind in Elios Kopf. Aber Oliver ist abweisend. Elio hasst ihn dafür aber im nächsten Moment verfällt er ihm wieder, sobald er von dem anderen etwas Aufmerksamkeit oder Zuspruch erfährt.Im zweiten und längsten Kapitel gesteht Elio nach ca. zwei Wochen der Qualen Oliver seine Empfindungen. Trotz Zögerns seitens Olivers beginnt eine erst sehr vorsichtige Annäherung, die noch über weitere zwei Wochen andauert bis auch bei Ihm alle Schranken fallen.Im dritten Kapitel verbringen beide gemeinsam Olivers letzte Tage in Rom, wo sie das erste mal außerhalb des paradiesischen elterlichen Hauses sind, fern von Elios Familie.Im letzten Kapitel beschreibt Elio Treffen der beiden 15 und 20 Jahre später und wie er versucht herauszufinden, was von Ihrer Liebe noch überlebt hat. Dieser Teil ist der melancholischste, dichteste und schönste und fehlt im Film fast vollständig. So viele der poetischen Sätze in diesem Kapitel könnte man einrahmen und an die Wand hängen.Die Sprache ist dicht, intensiv und sehr erotisch, dabei aber wunderschön und nie pornografisch.. Emotional aber nicht kitschig. Die Sätze sind teilweise sehr lang und verwunden:…It would finally dawn on us both that he was more me than I had ever been myself, because when he became me and I became him in bed so many years ago, he was and would forever remain, long after every forked road in life had done its work, my brother, my friend, my father, my son, my husband, my lover, myself.Dieser Satz beschreibt auch gefühlvoll die Essenz dieser Liebe, die vielleicht weit über eine Beziehung hinausgeht. Sie finden sich jeweils selbst durch den anderen. “Call me by Your name and I’ll call You by mine”. Alles was ein Mann für Elio sein kann, war vereinigt in Oliver. Allumfassend und total, bis hin zum Verschmelzen zu einem gemeinsamen Wesen. Hier werden Vorstellungen aus der Antike wieder erweckt.Von solchen wunderschönen sinnlichen Sätzen gibt es so viele in diesem Buch, hier noch ein Beispiel:From this moment on, I thought, from this moment on – I had , as I’d never before in my life, the distinct feeling of arriving somewhere very dear, of wanting it forever, of being me, me, me, me and no one else, just me, of finding in each shiver that ran down my arms something totally alien and yet by no means unfamiliar, as if all this had been part of me all my life and I’d misplaced it and he helped me find it.Der Autor arbeitet auch mit der Vorstellung von gespiegelten Liebhabern, die den jeweils anderen bei dem eigenen Namen nennen, Das Symbol Ihrer Verbundenheit und Einheit (und Gleichheit), wobei die Spiegelung auch ein eindeutig queeres Element der Geschichte bildet. Auch die beiden Namen sind bewusst gewählt: Wenn man das V und das R aus OLIVER entfernt, bleibt OLIE übrig, aus dem man ELIO bilden kann. Oliver ist in Elios Augen die vollkommenere und bessere Version von sich selbst. Er schaut zu ihm auf, vergöttert ihn, will zugleich bei ihm sein und er sein. Man kann das im wahren Leben bei den sogenannten „Boyfriend Twins“ beobachten.Auch der Austausch von Körperflüssigkeiten wird hier zu einem philosophischen Akt:I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, let it die inside my body.Wichtig ist hier auch, dass die Pfirsichszene, über die alle sprechen, die den Film gesehen haben, hier wirklich eine starke Symbolkraft hat und hier auf etwas andere Art stattfindet. Ein Grund mehr, das Buch zu lesen.Diese Liebesgeschichte ist sicherlich für alle verständlich und auch nachfühlbar, wenn man nicht gänzlich homophob ist (erste Liebe, Sehnsucht und Verlust und Schmerz). Ich finde, dass jeder sie lesen sollte. Und doch finde ich „universell“ („Coming – Of- Age- Liebesgeschichte“) etwas zu allgemein formuliert. Das wird immer gerne gesagt, um eine Geschichte aufwerten zu wollen und meint, damit ein größeres Publikum ansprechen zu können. Es ist aber auch eindeutig eine queere Geschichte und ersetzte man eine Figur durch eine Frau, würde alles gar keinen Sinn ergeben, z.B. die Spiegelung. Die Poesie dieser Geschichte wäre dahin. Verheimlichen müssen die Jungs Ihre Beziehung. Scham spielt eine Rolle, sowohl bei Elio nach dem ersten Sex mit Oliver als auch bei diesem wegen seiner Eltern, die ihn in eine Anstalt gesteckt hätten, hätten sie davon erfahren. Wenn beide sich küssen wollen, nur dann wenn keiner hinsieht. Ihre Liebe lebt gleichsam nur in einem Arkadien. Elio erzählt seinen Eltern einmal am Frühstückstisch, dass er beinahe mit einem Mädchen Sex gehabt hätte, hier spielt Scham keine Rolle.Ich finde es ganz außerordentlich, wie ein heterosexueller Autor mann-männliches Begehren, Phantasien und Sehnsüchte in derart intensiver und erotischer Weise in Worte gefasst hat, dass ich sämtliche Gefühlszustände durchlebt habe.We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

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⭐This is a beautifully written book charting a long 6 week vacation at a family’s Italian villa: along comes Oliver a lecturer at an American university who is mid-thesis and is working alongside the family father. Unexpectedly the American and the 17 year old son strike up a bond which rapidly develops into a love affair and meanders through a hot Italian and very beautiful landscape as a backdrop to both men learning what such feelings mean and how to express them – but then the age old issue of the impending summer sojourn coming to an end presses upon them. What to do? Without spoiling the ending there’s a degree of inevitability to the outcome but both have had a truly eye opening and liberating experience together (as is recognised by the father in his touching speech at the the end of the summer). What strikes you is the freedom the parties feel and the complete lack of judgement (except initially by Oliver at first) which creates a perfect atmosphere in which a very genuine and natural affection and desire can develop – taking both of them completely by surprise. Elio is the central narrator who, though extremely mature in most things, is finding his way with matters of the heart and soul but remains open to all possibilities. The flow of the interwoven relationships is effortless and the general feel of the story is one of humanity being allowed to go in whatever direction it desires.The film is a lovely condensing of the love story and captures some of the rapture and desire of the book.Thought provoking in its unchallenged freedom – let there be more of this.

⭐As someone who tends to actively avoid “new adult”, especially when romance is involved this was a rare foray for me. Most of those novels have intensely irritating characters with levels of maturity that leave you questioning their ability to tie shoelaces, never mind form a relationship.This was different, whilst Elio ticks the seemingly required introverted, nerd on cusp of adulthood box; he has a genuine appreciation of the adults in his life and their wisdom. Yet he has the selfish wants of a teen, and this forms much of his inner dialogue. It does meander on at times and this is my reason for 4 rather than 5 stars.When Oliver arrives to spend the summer with Elio’s family he finds himself captivated by the older and (to Elio) sophisticated man. I think many reviewers have missed the subtlety of Elio’s sexuality – he is sometimes confused about how he can engage in sex with a man and woman but it is his emotional attachment to Oliver that he finds hardest to rationalise.I believe the author is showing us no matter how precocious Elio is, hormones and sex can make intelligence take a firm back seat. But he doesn’t ruin his life or prospects, he simply falls in love for the first time. And to me that’s the crux of the story, it’s so rare to spend your life with the first person you fall for – but they also stay with you inside.Maybe if Oliver had been braver their story would have had a different outcome, but I felt this story was truer to real life and much the better for it. I thought the ending was quite beautiful, and for me invoked the strongest emotional response.

⭐Boy! Where do I start! I watched the movie, I read the book, I watched the movie again and then I read the book again. The story deals amply with human intimacy. Intimacy that makes you understand every shred of another human being, that makes you relate to someone at such a level that you basically identify that person as a part of your very identity. Such connection rarely occurs, and even if it does, it’s once in a lifetime thing. But it’s the most special thing that can happen to you even if you are million miles apart from each other and all that you need to survive is nostalgia and a bittersweet feeling that you were a part of something beautiful.

⭐So many 5 star reviews that say what I want to say. I’m late 50’s and this threw me back to memories from my late teens and 20’s. Anyone who can’t identify with either of the characters and thinks this book is dull has not experienced love/life/infatuation or any of those emotions and feelings that the author describes so well. I’m a straight female but this book could have been written for any gender mix.

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