Call Me By Your Name
by André Aciman
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Aciman opens in heat — the languid, suffocating heat of the Italian Riviera — and never quite lets you breathe again. This is a novel of interiority above all else: Elio's desire for Oliver unfolds less through events than through obsessive, circular thought, the mind returning again and again to what it cannot have. The prose is hypnotic and deliberately indulgent, mirroring its narrator's emotional state. Whether that feels like depth or excess depends on your tolerance for longing as a literary mode. What's undeniable is its precision about the texture of first love — the shame, the electricity, the self-erasure. Resonates most with those who've felt desire as something close to grief.
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Aciman writes sensation the way a composer writes silence — with total intention, letting it fill every space until you can almost feel the Italian heat on your own skin. Call Me By Your Name is less a love story than a study in longing itself, in the way memory embroiders experience until you can no longer tell the feeling from the echo of the feeling. We're exploring today why this novel's prose style is inseparable from its emotional devastation, and why readers return to it again and again knowing exactly how it ends.
Book Details
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- January 1, 2007
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
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