Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
André Aciman
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Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
André Aciman
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.
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I struggle to think of the last time I came across something so captivatingly rich with desire and lovelorn emotional complexity. It makes me want to write sappy romantic poems despite the fact that I can’t even figure out how Aciman managed to so effectively conjure such striking representations of those deep feelings, sometimes beautiful and sometimes downright disturbing in nature.
0As much as I just did not like the writing style, process and overall content of the book. It was still a book that showcased the intensity of falling in love with another human in a way that isnt really described in other aspects. The way the author writes in detail about craving another human being is very fucking odd at times but also romantic in its own sense?? I ended up liking part 4 of the book a lot more, knowing that the characters were much much older than they were in parts 1-3. Still, this book took a while to get through and I wanted to like it because I did like the movie (only bc of timothée chamalet <3) I just didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, there were lines in the book that moved me which is why I rated it 2 stars, but other than that, it’s a nope for me.
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