Call me by your name

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Call me by your name (English title: Call Me by Your Name ) is a novel by the American writer André Aciman about a love affair between a precocious 17-year-olds and 24-year-old scientist in Italy in the 1980s. The novel was first published in 2007 in English and the German translation by Renate Orth-Guttmann in 2008 by Verlag Kein & Aber .

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Narrator Elio Perlman, now based in the United States, recalls when he was 17 and lived with his parents in Italy in 1983. Every year his parents took in a guest who lived there for six weeks, revised a manuscript and helped Elio's father - a professor - with his academic documents. Elio and the guest at the time, Oliver, fall in love, but it is not clear to either of them whether this love will be reciprocated by the other.

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Reviews

Stacey D'Erasmo of the New York Times called the novel "an extraordinarily beautiful book". Cynthia Zarin of the New Yorker said, "Aciman's first novel portrays him as an astute grammarian of longing." And Charles Kaiser of the Washington Post said, "If you've ever been the willing victim of an obsessive love - a force greater than yourself, the Draws you inextricably to your object of desire - you will recognize every nuance of André Aciman's excellent new novel 'Call me by your name'. "

Awards

The novel won the "Gay General Fiction" category at the 20th Lambda Literary Awards .

filming

The novel was filmed in 2017 by Luca Guadagnino under the title Call Me by Your Name , whereby the film only looks at the summer romance between Elio (played by Timothée Chalamet ) and Oliver ( Armie Hammer ), dating back to 1983 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Call Me by Your Name - By André Aciman - Books - Review . In: The New York Times , February 25, 2007. Retrieved January 17, 2017. 
  2. ↑ Briefly Noted . In: The New Yorker , February 19, 2007. Retrieved January 17, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Love That Knows No Boundaries . In: The Washington Post , March 22, 2007. Retrieved January 17, 2017. 
  4. ↑ 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Winners and Finalists . Retrieved January 17, 2017.