André Aciman

Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, André Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest. From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender; to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, Paris, and New York; to his sheer ability to unearth life secrets from an ordinary street corner, Alibis reminds the reader that Aciman is a master of the personal essay.

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. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.

Sono passati parecchi anni da quell'estate in Riviera, durante la quale Elio - diciassettenne coltissimo e sensibile - aveva scoperto la forza travolgente del primo vero amore con Oliver, studente post dottorando del padre di Elio, in vacanza presso la famiglia. Quell'estate era stata indimenticabile per tutti, per l'intensità e l'autenticità di quei sentimenti unici. Ma le esistenze dei tre protagonisti sono destinate a intrecciarsi ancora in questo nuovo romanzo di Aciman. La storia si apre con l'incontro casuale sul treno da Firenze a Roma tra un professore di mezza età e una giovane donna. Due normali compagni di viaggio, che scoprono però un'improvvisa, inspiegabile, fortissima attrazione che li porterà a rivoluzionare le loro esistenze. L'uomo è il padre di Elio e sta andando a una conferenza. La ragazza è una fotografa e in quell'uomo che potrebbe essere suo padre scopre la persona che avrebbe da sempre voluto conoscere. Elio invece insegna a Parigi, e anche per lui la vita ha in serbo un incontro inaspettato, che ben presto si trasformerà in un legame speciale, fatto di confidenze e complicità. L'ultimo dei tre protagonisti di "Chiamami col tuo nome", Oliver, ora vive a New York, è sposato e ha due figli adolescenti, ma non ha mai dimenticato quell'estate italiana, ed è come se la sua vita si fosse fermata

Vent’anni fa, un’estate in Riviera, una di quelle estati che segnano la vita per sempre. Elio ha diciassette anni, e per lui sono appena iniziate le vacanze nella splendida villa di famiglia nel Ponente ligure. Figlio di un professore universitario, musicista sensibile, decisamente colto per la sua età, il ragazzo aspetta come ogni anno «l’ospite dell’estate, l’ennesima scocciatura»: uno studente in arrivo da New York per lavorare alla sua tesi di post dottorato. Ma Oliver, il giovane americano, conquista tutti con la sua bellezza e i modi disinvolti. Anche Elio ne è irretito. I due condividono, oltre alle origini ebraiche, molte passioni: discutono di film, libri, fanno lunghe passeggiate e nuotate. E tra loro nasce un desiderio inesorabile quanto inatteso, vissuto fino in fondo, dalla sofferenza all’estasi. Chiamami col tuo nome è la storia di un paradiso scoperto e già perduto, una meditazione proustiana sul tempo e sul desiderio, una domanda che resta aperta finché Elio e Oliver si ritroveranno un giorno a confessare a se stessi che «questa cosa che quasi non fu mai ancora ci tenta».

A LUSHLY ROMANTIC NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Eight White Nights is an unforgettable journey through that enchanted terrain where passion and fear and the sheer craving to ask for love and to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: "I am Clara." Over the following seven days, they meet every evening at the same cinema. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly and won’t hazard a move. The tension between them builds gradually, marked by ambivalence, hope, and distrust. As André Aciman explores their emotions with uncompromising accuracy and sensuous prose, they move both closer together and farther apart, culminating on New Year's Eve in a final scene charged with magic and the promise of renewal. Call Me by Your Name, Aciman's debut novel, established him as one of the finest writers of our time, an expert at the most sultry depictions of longing and desire. As The Washington Post Book World wrote, "The beauty of Aciman’s writing and the purity of his passions should place this extraordinary first novel within the canon of great romantic love stories for everyone." Aciman’s piercing and romantic new novel is a brilliant performance from a master prose stylist.

En 2018, el mundo entero se conmovió con el amor de verano entre Elio y Oliver. Llámame por tu nombre, publicada originalmente más de diez años antes, se convirtió en un fenómeno gracias a la película estrenada aquel año. Y este relato de deseo, descubrimiento, pasión y veladas infinitas llegó a miles de lectores que, con el corazón en vilo, esperan conocer cómo concluye esta historia. Por fin, en Encuéntrame, vuelven Elio y Oliver. Elio es ahora un pianista en auge a punto de mudarse a París; Oliver es profesor, padre de familia y puede que vuelva a visitar Europa; Samuel, el padre de Elio, vive en Italia y, en un viaje en tren para visitar a su hijo, tendrá un encuentro que cambiará su vida. Este cruce de historias satisfará todas las expectativas, por inconfesables que sean.

A passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories. Andre Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York Magazine), has written a novel in Enigma Variations that charts the life of Paul whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout adulthood as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinet maker, or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; on a tennis court in Central Park, or a sidewalk in early spring New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well. In mapping the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love always casts its luminous halo. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we’ve always known we were.

In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters decades after their first meeting. No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.

A powerful tale of love, friendship, and becoming American in late ’70s Cambridge from the best-selling novelist. Cambridge, 1977: A Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, is preparing to become the assimilated American professor he longs to be. But when he bonds with a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver nicknamed Kalashnikov, he begins to neglect his studies. Together they carouse the bars and cafés of Cambridge, seduce strangers, ridicule “jumbo-ersatz” America, and skinny-dip in Walden Pond. As final exams approach and the cab driver is threatened with deportation, the grad student faces the decision of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New World assimilation or ditch it all to defend his Old World friend. Sexually charged and enormously moving, this is a deeply American novel of identity and ideals in conflict. It is the book that will seal André Aciman’s reputation as one of the finest writers of our time.

Fristående fortsättning på kultromanen Call me by your name Tjugofem år har gått sedan vi mötte Elio och Oliver en vibrerande sommar på den italienska Rivieran. Nu möter vi Elios far Samuel, numera frånskild, på ett tåg mot Rom. Bredvid honom i kupén sitter en ung kvinna. De börjar prata. Några timmar senare är de älskande och lovar varandra att aldrig skiljas åt. Elio bor i Paris och är konsertpianist. Efter en föreställning möter han den dubbelt så gamle Michael, och de inleder en passionerad kärlekshistoria. Men inom Elio lever minnet kvar av den första kärleken och mötet med Oliver den där varma sommaren för länge sedan. Oliver, som reste tillbaka till USA och bildade familj. Nu är Oliver skild, barnen är utflugna och han funderar på att återvända till Europa. André Aciman blottlägger mästerligt psykets och kärlekens innersta väsen när han tar oss tillbaka till en sommar och till den kärlek som aldrig dör. Översättning av Inger Johansson

The New York Times-bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also known as counterfactual moods and include the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative--all best expressed in this book as the might-be and the might-have-been. One of the great prose stylists of his generation, Andr� Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are about what might have been but never was but could in theory still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, C. P. Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, �ric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.

Un joven estudiante americano viaja a Italia para profundizar en sus estudios de Filosofía durante un verano. El hermoso pueblo costero en el que se instala servirá de marco para narrar una historia de amor que marcará su vida y la del joven y sensible hijo adolescente de la familia que le acoge. La pequeña mansión es un refugio de belleza, cultura y armonía, donde la literatura y la amistad fraguarán una pasión que debe mantenerse oculta. Escrita con intensidad y emoción, Llámame por tu nombre es el relato de un viaje por los rincones más profundos de los sentimientos y el erotismo, y es también, un canto a la belleza y al poder absoluto del amor.

André Aciman si conferma un impareggiabile interprete dell’eros     Mariana, l’io narrante di questo romanzo, è una giovane della provincia americana appena arrivata in Italia per trascorrere alcuni mesi di studio all’accademia d’arte. La prima sera, al ricevimento di benvenuto, incontra Itamar. Fa il pittore, è bello e carismatico, ed è un seduttore impenitente. Sebbene consapevole che una relazione con un uomo del genere è destinata a finire male, Mariana non può fare a meno di innamorarsene. Immediatamente e perdutamente. Quando lui comincia a trattarla in modo ambiguo, sparendo e riapparendo all’improvviso, Mariana è disarmata. Per reazione a questo scostante atteggiamento, si cela dietro un’apparenza fredda e distaccata, fino a quando un incontro casuale con lui in pubblico la farà vacillare… André Aciman, cantore odierno dell’attrazione, si è ispirato a Lettere di una monaca portoghese , il libro-scandalo pubblicato sotto pseudonimo che per il realismo e l’audacia nel raccontare la passione amorosa, alla fine del XVII secolo segnò una vera svolta letteraria. Ci consegna così, riportandola all’oggi, la storia di un amore totale, un acuto romanzo psicologico contrassegnato da un eros spietato, inesorabile, che inganna e ferisce, ma a cui è impossibile resistere.  

Livro que inspirou o filme dirigido por Luca Guadagnino, aclamado nos festivais de Berlim, Toronto, do Rio, no Sundance e um dos principais candidatos ao Oscar de 2018. A casa onde Elio passa os verões é um verdadeiro paraíso na costa italiana, parada certa de amigos, vizinhos, artistas e intelectuais de todos os lugares. Filho de um importante professor universitário, o jovem está bastante acostumado à rotina de, a cada verão, hospedar por seis semanas na villa da família um novo escritor que, em troca da boa acolhida, ajuda seu pai com correspondências e papeladas. Uma cobiçada residência literária que já atraiu muitos nomes, mas nenhum deles como Oliver. Elio imediatamente, e sem perceber, se encanta pelo americano de vinte e quatro anos, espontâneo e atraente, que aproveita a temporada para trabalhar em seu manuscrito sobre Heráclito e, sobretudo, desfrutar do verão mediterrâneo. Da antipatia impaciente que parece atravessar o convívio inicial dos dois surge uma paixão que só aumenta à medida que o instável e desconhecido terreno que os separa vai sendo vencido. Uma experiência inesquecível, que os marcará para o resto da vida. Com rara sensibilidade, André Aciman constrói uma viva e sincera elegia à paixão, em um romance no qual se reconhecem as mais delicadas e brutais emoções da juventude. Uma narrativa magnética, inquieta e profundamente tocante.

Rome, 1960s. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage - 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have left their father, as the Aciman family begin a new adventure in Rome. André is now head of the family, with a little brother to keep in line and a mother to translate for - for although she's mute, she is nothing if not communicative. Equal parts transporting and beautiful, this coming of age memoir shares the luminous, fragile truth of life for a family forever in exile, living in Rome, but still yet to find a home.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name and Find Me, a memoir of an extraordinary life.'[A] mesmerizing portrait of a now vanished world. Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the Government in the early 1960's. It is the story of a fractious clan of dreamers and con men and the emotional price they would pay for exile, the story of a young boy's coming of age and his memories of the city he loved in his youth.Writing in lucid, lyrical prose, Mr. Aciman does an exquisite job of conjuring up the daily rhythms and rituals of his family's life: their weekly trips to the movies, their daily jaunts to the beach, their internecine squabbles over everything from religion to money to the pronunciation of words. There are some wonderfully vivid scenes here, as strange and marvelous as something in Garcia Marquez, as comical and surprising as something in Chekhov.' Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesAciman's latest novel, Find Me, is now available for preorder in paperback.

Paul przez całe dorosłe życie przeżywa każdą miłość równie żarliwie i bez opamiętania jak w wieku młodzieńczym. I nie jest istotne, czy podkochuje się w stolarzu pracującym dla jego rodziców podczas wakacji na południu Włoch, czy jako student na zaśnieżonym kampusie w Nowej Anglii wplątuje się w gasnący i powracający romans z nieuchwytną przyjaciółką punktowany anonimowymi zbliżeniami z mężczyznami, czy jest na korcie tenisowym w Central Parku, czy też spaceruje wczesną wiosną nowojorskimi ulicami. Jego zauroczenia są zawsze nieuchwytne, płynne i podszyte organicznym pożądaniem, nieodmiennie rozszczepionym między jednym zakochaniem a drugim.

Paul was reading a newspaper. Catherine was reading a novel. So begins Room on the Sea, André Aciman's scorching and elegiac love-story about a middle-aged man and woman who meet in the bullpen of jury selection and spend a sultry summer’s week trespassing ever further into each other's hearts. What begins as a flirtation quickly evolves into something deeper, something Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret—and with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question. But as the week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past. By turns scintillating and philosophical, Room on the Sea is a compulsively listenable story of love, fate, and last chances. ©2022 Andre Aciman (P)2022 Audible Originals, Inc.

Tamte dni, tamte noce to historia nagłego i intensywnego romansu między dorastającym chłopcem a gościem jego rodziców w letnim domu we Włoszech. Obaj są zaskoczeni wzajemnym zauroczeniem i początkowo każdy z nich udaje obojętność. Ale w miarę jak mijają kolejne niespokojne letnie tygodnie, ujawniają się ukryte emocje: obsesja i strach, fascynacja i pożądanie, a ich namiętność przybiera na sile. Niespełna sześciotygodniowy romans jest doświadczeniem, które naznacza ich na całe życie. To, co odkrywają na Riwierze i podczas namiętnego wieczoru w Rzymie, jest jedyną rzeczą, której boją się już nigdy więcej nie znaleźć: totalną bliskością. Dzięki znakomicie uchwyconej psychologii, która towarzyszy zauroczeniu, książka jest szczerą, przeszywającą serce elegią o ludzkiej namiętności, której nie da się zapomnieć.

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would rent a boat and invite the others on a cruise. Now, the friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy. While their boat is being repaired, they can’t help but observe the daily routine of a fellow hotel guest - a mysterious, white-bearded stranger who sits on the veranda each night and smokes one cigarette, sometimes two. One evening, the stranger approaches their table and places a hand on the shoulder of Mark, a member of the group who recently suffered an injury to that very shoulder. In an instant, Mark’s pain miraculously evaporates. The group is stunned, eager to find out more about this stranger’s healing powers - everyone but Margot, who is suspicious of this man and reluctant to join her friends’ enthusiasm. Soon, though, even Margot finds herself enchanted by his mystical powers, and she allows Raúl to introduce her to simple pleasures like fresh fish seasoned with peppery olive oil and swimming in the sea in midafternoon light. She also allows him to tell her things about herself - testing his unnerving clairvoyance - until she realizes that they may have already met and that this is neither the beginning of their love story nor the end. Written by André Aciman and performed by Edoardo Ballerini, two master storytellers at the height of their own otherworldly powers, The Gentleman from Peru is a sultry and spellbinding tale of love, self-discovery, and past lives. Listening length: 2 hours, 39 minutes

La nueva y mejor novela del autor de Llámame por tu nombre. «Aciman escribe con la ferocidad del escritor que finalmente ha dado con su manera de ver y tiene que sacarla a la luz. Ha creado algo magnífico y vivo». The New York Times Como un mismo tema musical (el del erotismo, los recuerdos y el cuerpo) tocado en sus diversas variaciones, así son los vínculos de Paul con las diferentes personas que han ido dando forma a lo que él entiende por amor. Hombres y mujeres con los que se ha encontrado desde su adolescencia en Italia hasta su madurez en Estados Unidos. Todas estas conexiones, que trazan una constelación cargada de deseo a lo largo de la vida de su protagonista, señalan también los momentos culminantes de Variaciones Enigma, la nueva y magistral novela de André Aciman. Un relato sensual y repleto de destellos sobre la posibilidad de descubrirnos a través de los demás, de nuestros momentos compartidos y de la intimidad construida de manera conjunta.