CALL ME BY YOUR NAME André Aciman
Literatur Solasaldiak Tertulias literarias Literary Circle Errenteriako Biblioteka 2022.06.15
André Aciman André Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenthcentury literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, has taught at Princeton and Bard and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center. Aciman is the author of the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt (1995), an account of his childhood as a Jew growing up in post-colonial Egypt. A novel Call Me By Your Name (2007), which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Lambda Literary Award for Men's Fiction (2008).
Call Me By Your Name 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.
Selected works Novels • • • •
Call Me by Your Name (2007) Eight White Nights (2010) Enigma Variations (2017) Find Me (2019)
Non-fiction • • • •
Out of Egypt (memoir) (1995) False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory (2000) Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere (2011) Homo Irrealis: Essays (2021)
Interesting Links “André Aciman on writing Call Me by Your Name: 'I fell in love with Elio and Oliver, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/09/andreacimanon-writing-call-me-by-your-name-i-fell-in-love-withelioand-oliver Literary Podcast (in Spanish, Basque and ENGLISH): https://elrefugiodepapel.com https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-refugio-papel_sq_f1878858_1.html Our coordinator´s blog (ENG/ESP): https://donostiabookclub.blogspot.com