

Buy Call Me By Your Name by Aciman, Andre from desertcart's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Review: cor cordium...heart of hearts - This book broke my heart! I feel it's important to say that before anything else, because I don't want to give you the wrong impression; that this is some kind of fluffy tale of a forbidden holiday romance. That would cheapen it, and despite the occasional sex scenes which might put off a few sensitive readers, this is a story not cheap in any way, shape or form. Call Me By Your Name is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful things I have ever read (probably the most beautiful, second only to Lolita). It is the story of a passionate, intimate and eternal - yet doomed - love between a boy named Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver, and the incredible connection that grows between them over the summer, and culminates in a tragically all-too-brief stay in Rome. The boys grow into men but their friendship, and complete and total yearning for each other, continues to draw them together even as life draws them apart... I'll confess it took me a while to get into this story; lack of dialogue tagging made it hard for me to know who was speaking, and Elio's narrative voice sometimes gets carried away on boring tangents - he's a little too high-brow to be believeable as a 17 year old. But at the same time the innocent, desperate boy's prose, imagery, and obsessive fantasies about the carefree Oliver (which he gradually comes to realise are not as pathetically one-sided as he thought!) are mesmeric, and only a few chapters in I found myself hypnotised by the sights, sounds and smells of the mediterranean, as if I'd been sucked right into Elio and Oliver's beautiful world. As I say, there is a lot of infuriating back and forth, lazy days and 'will they won't they' going on in the beginning, but don't let it put you off, because it's all an effective, agonising build up to when they finally do get together. However...like Cathy and Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, the characters in this book suffer from major 'bang their heads together' syndrome. It's infuriating, and I often wanted to scream 'WHY? WHY DON'T YOU JUST BE TOGETHER???!!! ARGH!!' Honestly, it's incredible how much effect this book had on me. The image of Elio and Oliver's kiss in Rome will be forever burned into my imagination as though I was right there with them, and one bit of the book right near the end when Elio is wishing that he could tell Oliver something and just can't...wow, that bit made me put down the book for a moment and just burst into tears. I literally could not stop sobbing for about five minutes - I cannot remember the last time any book made me cry that hard!! (Apart from when Dobby died in Harry Potter, but that's a story for another day...) Call Me By Your Name is both a celebration and a eulogy, and even though it leaves you with a bittersweet ache inside, it also leaves you with the memories of one of the most enduring love stories ever written. Beautiful and heartrending, this is utter class and will stay with me until my dying day. I hope that, one long hot summer in the distant future, I might be brave enough to grab some tissues, curl up, and let Elio and Oliver take me back to Monet's Berm with them. Review: The defining summer of his life - This is one of the great love stories. It evokes the longings, the sublimities, the pangs of first love with a poetic transcendence that only the finest writers can achieve. You usually have to go back to the classics, to Goethe and Turgenev, to find such delicate angst, such aching tenderness, to experience such an intense sense of intimacy and loss. There have been many coming of age stories, particularly those that feature the transformative experience of first gay love, some very good, but I cannot recall any as good as this one. It's a literary novel, scrupulous, poetic and analytic in its sensuous handling of language; it gets under the skins of its two main characters, to explore the multiplicity of meanings found in gestures, expressions, conversations, incidents, feelings. It is Proustian: the author, analysing through the eyes of a narrator looking back at his youthful self from the vantage of years and wisdom - just as Marcel did in Proust's great novel - immerses himself once more in the myriad signs of desire, love and loss. Elio, seventeen, a gifted musician, highly intelligent and literate, exceptional in many ways, meets at his parent's Italian coastal villa, Oliver, a handsome twenty-four year old, a student of his father; he is working on a book about Herodotus. Oliver has come to stay for the summer: the weather is perfect, the villa and its surroundings idyllic, the household full of civilised, liberal minded people and servants: this is the ideal setting for a summer romance, and Aciman evokes it with the skill of a subtle painter. At first, as Elio desires Oliver, trying to hide it, even from himself, but giving himself away in so many awkward ways, it is a novel of unrequited love, and everyone who has ever felt unspoken desire of this intensity knows what contortions the soul has to go through, balanced between lust and denial. At first Oliver is ambiguous in his response to the boy; he leads a life off-stage that adds to his allure, his mystery, his apparent unattainabilty, but there are signs that he's interested, signs that are highly erotic. And then the breakthrough, the souls bared, the physical intimacy, the other-worldly happiness, the sense of two ardent, exceptional beings mingling... (one has to use this language to try and indicate the profundity of this love). In the final section, which happens largely in Rome, we move from the realm of consummated love to the sharper realities of the outside world where a sense of loss, of breaking apart, gathers in a city full of pleasures and temptations. A coda gives us those poignant, fleeting, regretful moments of this love's afterlife, when the men meet a few times years later. During one of these meetings, Oliver, now a middle-aged married man with sons, declares that Elio was his 'heart of hearts'. It underlines the understated tragedy of a love lost, one which remains inexplicable, that seems like a violation of the essential rules of love. The emotion at the end is almost too much to bear, at least for this reader. Love stories seldom come as good as this. It's amazing that it's a first novel, the handling of theme and language so mature, so intelligent, so moving. As I write in 2017, ten years after it was published, a film has been released of the book. I am wondering how a film maker can turn such Proustian prose, such a delicate analysis of the heart's movements, into visuals without losing the essential texture of the story, the sense of a man looking back with such refined emotion at the defining summer of his life. I wonder if it will be able to catch the exceptional nature of this love between men, not through the introspective meditations of a literary text but through visuals, where everything has to be inferred.





| ASIN | 1786495252 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 47,918 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 123 in Film & Television Tie-In 511 in Erotic BDSM Fiction 975 in Social Sciences (Books) |
| Book 1 of 2 | Call Me by Your Name |
| Customer reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (43,150) |
| Dimensions | 13.8 x 2 x 19.9 cm |
| Edition | Main |
| ISBN-10 | 9781786495259 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1786495259 |
| Item weight | 1.05 kg |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 256 pages |
| Publication date | 21 Sept. 2017 |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
T**S
cor cordium...heart of hearts
This book broke my heart! I feel it's important to say that before anything else, because I don't want to give you the wrong impression; that this is some kind of fluffy tale of a forbidden holiday romance. That would cheapen it, and despite the occasional sex scenes which might put off a few sensitive readers, this is a story not cheap in any way, shape or form. Call Me By Your Name is, quite simply, one of the most beautiful things I have ever read (probably the most beautiful, second only to Lolita). It is the story of a passionate, intimate and eternal - yet doomed - love between a boy named Elio and his father's house guest, Oliver, and the incredible connection that grows between them over the summer, and culminates in a tragically all-too-brief stay in Rome. The boys grow into men but their friendship, and complete and total yearning for each other, continues to draw them together even as life draws them apart... I'll confess it took me a while to get into this story; lack of dialogue tagging made it hard for me to know who was speaking, and Elio's narrative voice sometimes gets carried away on boring tangents - he's a little too high-brow to be believeable as a 17 year old. But at the same time the innocent, desperate boy's prose, imagery, and obsessive fantasies about the carefree Oliver (which he gradually comes to realise are not as pathetically one-sided as he thought!) are mesmeric, and only a few chapters in I found myself hypnotised by the sights, sounds and smells of the mediterranean, as if I'd been sucked right into Elio and Oliver's beautiful world. As I say, there is a lot of infuriating back and forth, lazy days and 'will they won't they' going on in the beginning, but don't let it put you off, because it's all an effective, agonising build up to when they finally do get together. However...like Cathy and Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights, the characters in this book suffer from major 'bang their heads together' syndrome. It's infuriating, and I often wanted to scream 'WHY? WHY DON'T YOU JUST BE TOGETHER???!!! ARGH!!' Honestly, it's incredible how much effect this book had on me. The image of Elio and Oliver's kiss in Rome will be forever burned into my imagination as though I was right there with them, and one bit of the book right near the end when Elio is wishing that he could tell Oliver something and just can't...wow, that bit made me put down the book for a moment and just burst into tears. I literally could not stop sobbing for about five minutes - I cannot remember the last time any book made me cry that hard!! (Apart from when Dobby died in Harry Potter, but that's a story for another day...) Call Me By Your Name is both a celebration and a eulogy, and even though it leaves you with a bittersweet ache inside, it also leaves you with the memories of one of the most enduring love stories ever written. Beautiful and heartrending, this is utter class and will stay with me until my dying day. I hope that, one long hot summer in the distant future, I might be brave enough to grab some tissues, curl up, and let Elio and Oliver take me back to Monet's Berm with them.
R**N
The defining summer of his life
This is one of the great love stories. It evokes the longings, the sublimities, the pangs of first love with a poetic transcendence that only the finest writers can achieve. You usually have to go back to the classics, to Goethe and Turgenev, to find such delicate angst, such aching tenderness, to experience such an intense sense of intimacy and loss. There have been many coming of age stories, particularly those that feature the transformative experience of first gay love, some very good, but I cannot recall any as good as this one. It's a literary novel, scrupulous, poetic and analytic in its sensuous handling of language; it gets under the skins of its two main characters, to explore the multiplicity of meanings found in gestures, expressions, conversations, incidents, feelings. It is Proustian: the author, analysing through the eyes of a narrator looking back at his youthful self from the vantage of years and wisdom - just as Marcel did in Proust's great novel - immerses himself once more in the myriad signs of desire, love and loss. Elio, seventeen, a gifted musician, highly intelligent and literate, exceptional in many ways, meets at his parent's Italian coastal villa, Oliver, a handsome twenty-four year old, a student of his father; he is working on a book about Herodotus. Oliver has come to stay for the summer: the weather is perfect, the villa and its surroundings idyllic, the household full of civilised, liberal minded people and servants: this is the ideal setting for a summer romance, and Aciman evokes it with the skill of a subtle painter. At first, as Elio desires Oliver, trying to hide it, even from himself, but giving himself away in so many awkward ways, it is a novel of unrequited love, and everyone who has ever felt unspoken desire of this intensity knows what contortions the soul has to go through, balanced between lust and denial. At first Oliver is ambiguous in his response to the boy; he leads a life off-stage that adds to his allure, his mystery, his apparent unattainabilty, but there are signs that he's interested, signs that are highly erotic. And then the breakthrough, the souls bared, the physical intimacy, the other-worldly happiness, the sense of two ardent, exceptional beings mingling... (one has to use this language to try and indicate the profundity of this love). In the final section, which happens largely in Rome, we move from the realm of consummated love to the sharper realities of the outside world where a sense of loss, of breaking apart, gathers in a city full of pleasures and temptations. A coda gives us those poignant, fleeting, regretful moments of this love's afterlife, when the men meet a few times years later. During one of these meetings, Oliver, now a middle-aged married man with sons, declares that Elio was his 'heart of hearts'. It underlines the understated tragedy of a love lost, one which remains inexplicable, that seems like a violation of the essential rules of love. The emotion at the end is almost too much to bear, at least for this reader. Love stories seldom come as good as this. It's amazing that it's a first novel, the handling of theme and language so mature, so intelligent, so moving. As I write in 2017, ten years after it was published, a film has been released of the book. I am wondering how a film maker can turn such Proustian prose, such a delicate analysis of the heart's movements, into visuals without losing the essential texture of the story, the sense of a man looking back with such refined emotion at the defining summer of his life. I wonder if it will be able to catch the exceptional nature of this love between men, not through the introspective meditations of a literary text but through visuals, where everything has to be inferred.
M**I
Beautiful novel but...
... the last 40 odd pages seem unnecessary. I read it after watching the critically acclaimed film first and both are superb and the novel should have ended where the film did. Still, for 90% of its length it is a beautifully composed and written novel of love set in the Italian coastline. Like La vie d’Adele, the sexual preference of the two main protagonists seems almost immaterial. That it is two young men in love is secondary. La dolce vita indeed! It’s full of beautiful descriptions and very poetic. A lovely, decadent, read...and a bit more explicit than the movie. I’m glad there’s a sequel (though wish the last 40 pages are superfluous.
L**R
Ich habe gerade den Roman zu lesen beendet und ich weiß gar nicht, wohin mit mir. Das sitzt richtig tief. Natürlich bin ich über den Film zu dem Buch gekommen, habe das Buch zuerst begonnen, zwischendurch den Film in einer Vorpremiere OmU sehen können und es jetzt, wie gesagt, beendet. Wie eine Rezensentin vor mir musste ich zwischendurch das Buch beiseitelegen, weil ich dann doch überwältigt wurde. Ich finde es auch nicht leicht zu lesen. Für mich persönlich wäre das keine Sommerlektüre für den Strand. Dazu ist es neben der ganzen Poesie auch einfach zu traurig und komplex. Und das nochmal eine Stufe intensiver als im Film, der ja erst gegen Ende so richtig zubeißt. Der Roman ist eine Introspektive und eine Erinnerung zwanzig Jahre zurück. "It is the first thing I remember about him, and I can hear it still today. Later! I shut my eyes, say the word, and I'm back in Italy, so many years ago, walking down the tree-lined driveway, watching him step out of the cab, billowy blue shirt, wide-open collar, sunglasses, straw hat, skin everywhere. Suddenly he's shaking my hand, handing me his backpack, removing his suitcase from the trunk of the cab, asking if my father is home." Den ganzen Roman bestimmt von Anfang an ein melancholisch-sehnsüchtiger Grundton, der sich bis zum Ende hält und sich eher noch steigert. Ein Sehnen, das nie zu Ende geht. Das ganze Leben lang. Letztlich geht es hier um die Wirkung der Zeit auf die Menschen und ihre Gefühle und darum, dass ein Paradies nur in der Erinnerung aufrechterhalten werden kann. Darum, wie immer wieder Teile der Persönlichkeit herausgerissen und immer neue Schichten darübergelegt wurden, wie bei einer sehr alten Kirche. Darum wie man sich dabei oberflächlich verändert oder die äußeren Bedingungen, aber vielleicht tief unter den neuen Schichten noch einen Rest Ihrer Liebe von damals entdeckt werden kann. Etwas, was sie geprägt hat, auf der sie sich alles gründet. Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer. Das Buch ist in vier Kapitel eingeteilt und die Geschichte der beiden Männer wird aus subjektiver Sicht Elios erzählt im Rückblick 20 Jahre später. Im ersten trifft Elio (17) auf Oliver (24), den amerikanischen Doktoranden, der über sechs Wochen in Ihrem Haus in Italien verbringen soll, um dort zu arbeiten. Vom ersten Moment an richtet sich eine fast obsessive Aufmerksamkeit auf Oliver. Jeder Schritt, jede Aussage, jedes Verhalten Olivers wird analysiert und interpretiert, jede Stelle seines Körpers gescannt. Wir sind in Elios Kopf. Aber Oliver ist abweisend. Elio hasst ihn dafür aber im nächsten Moment verfällt er ihm wieder, sobald er von dem anderen etwas Aufmerksamkeit oder Zuspruch erfährt. Im zweiten und längsten Kapitel gesteht Elio nach ca. zwei Wochen der Qualen Oliver seine Empfindungen. Trotz Zögerns seitens Olivers beginnt eine erst sehr vorsichtige Annäherung, die noch über weitere zwei Wochen andauert bis auch bei Ihm alle Schranken fallen. Im dritten Kapitel verbringen beide gemeinsam Olivers letzte Tage in Rom, wo sie das erste mal außerhalb des paradiesischen elterlichen Hauses sind, fern von Elios Familie. Im letzten Kapitel beschreibt Elio Treffen der beiden 15 und 20 Jahre später und wie er versucht herauszufinden, was von Ihrer Liebe noch überlebt hat. Dieser Teil ist der melancholischste, dichteste und schönste und fehlt im Film fast vollständig. So viele der poetischen Sätze in diesem Kapitel könnte man einrahmen und an die Wand hängen. Die Sprache ist dicht, intensiv und sehr erotisch, dabei aber wunderschön und nie pornografisch.. Emotional aber nicht kitschig. Die Sätze sind teilweise sehr lang und verwunden: …It would finally dawn on us both that he was more me than I had ever been myself, because when he became me and I became him in bed so many years ago, he was and would forever remain, long after every forked road in life had done its work, my brother, my friend, my father, my son, my husband, my lover, myself. Dieser Satz beschreibt auch gefühlvoll die Essenz dieser Liebe, die vielleicht weit über eine Beziehung hinausgeht. Sie finden sich jeweils selbst durch den anderen. "Call me by Your name and I'll call You by mine". Alles was ein Mann für Elio sein kann, war vereinigt in Oliver. Allumfassend und total, bis hin zum Verschmelzen zu einem gemeinsamen Wesen. Hier werden Vorstellungen aus der Antike wieder erweckt. Von solchen wunderschönen sinnlichen Sätzen gibt es so viele in diesem Buch, hier noch ein Beispiel: From this moment on, I thought, from this moment on – I had , as I'd never before in my life, the distinct feeling of arriving somewhere very dear, of wanting it forever, of being me, me, me, me and no one else, just me, of finding in each shiver that ran down my arms something totally alien and yet by no means unfamiliar, as if all this had been part of me all my life and I'd misplaced it and he helped me find it. Der Autor arbeitet auch mit der Vorstellung von gespiegelten Liebhabern, die den jeweils anderen bei dem eigenen Namen nennen, Das Symbol Ihrer Verbundenheit und Einheit (und Gleichheit), wobei die Spiegelung auch ein eindeutig queeres Element der Geschichte bildet. Auch die beiden Namen sind bewusst gewählt: Wenn man das V und das R aus OLIVER entfernt, bleibt OLIE übrig, aus dem man ELIO bilden kann. Oliver ist in Elios Augen die vollkommenere und bessere Version von sich selbst. Er schaut zu ihm auf, vergöttert ihn, will zugleich bei ihm sein und er sein. Man kann das im wahren Leben bei den sogenannten „Boyfriend Twins“ beobachten. Auch der Austausch von Körperflüssigkeiten wird hier zu einem philosophischen Akt: I believe with every cell in my body that every cell in yours must not, must never, die, and if it does have to die, let it die inside my body. Wichtig ist hier auch, dass die Pfirsichszene, über die alle sprechen, die den Film gesehen haben, hier wirklich eine starke Symbolkraft hat und hier auf etwas andere Art stattfindet. Ein Grund mehr, das Buch zu lesen. Diese Liebesgeschichte ist sicherlich für alle verständlich und auch nachfühlbar, wenn man nicht gänzlich homophob ist (erste Liebe, Sehnsucht und Verlust und Schmerz). Ich finde, dass jeder sie lesen sollte. Und doch finde ich „universell“ („Coming - Of- Age- Liebesgeschichte“) etwas zu allgemein formuliert. Das wird immer gerne gesagt, um eine Geschichte aufwerten zu wollen und meint, damit ein größeres Publikum ansprechen zu können. Es ist aber auch eindeutig eine queere Geschichte und ersetzte man eine Figur durch eine Frau, würde alles gar keinen Sinn ergeben, z.B. die Spiegelung. Die Poesie dieser Geschichte wäre dahin. Verheimlichen müssen die Jungs Ihre Beziehung. Scham spielt eine Rolle, sowohl bei Elio nach dem ersten Sex mit Oliver als auch bei diesem wegen seiner Eltern, die ihn in eine Anstalt gesteckt hätten, hätten sie davon erfahren. Wenn beide sich küssen wollen, nur dann wenn keiner hinsieht. Ihre Liebe lebt gleichsam nur in einem Arkadien. Elio erzählt seinen Eltern einmal am Frühstückstisch, dass er beinahe mit einem Mädchen Sex gehabt hätte, hier spielt Scham keine Rolle. Ich finde es ganz außerordentlich, wie ein heterosexueller Autor mann-männliches Begehren, Phantasien und Sehnsüchte in derart intensiver und erotischer Weise in Worte gefasst hat, dass ich sämtliche Gefühlszustände durchlebt habe. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.
J**D
Love the movie, love the book. Especially that it gives more clarity about the ending
C**T
The book is good and nicely written and I'm halfway in after a day and a half so I might reread later. The cover I got was the man by the pool
L**O
Esse livro não é para todo mundo. Sei que nenhum é, que tem sempre alguém, seja honestamente ou por pura insegurança e necessidade de se sentir diferente e especial, que não gosta de algum livro. Mas o que quero dizer sempre que uso essa frase é que o livro não é do tipo que agrada fácil, que conquista a maioria das pessoas, que será entendido por todo mundo que ler. Estou impressionada com a fama que ele conquistou (mesmo que tenha sido por causa do filme) entre pessoas que parecem tão distantes do estilo dele. A primeira coisa que me fez perceber que este livro não é para todo mundo foi sua honestidade. Talvez honestidade seja uma palavra simples demais para o jeito que a história foi narrada sem medo, sem pudor, sem qualquer inibição. Do mesmo modo em que os dois personagens se entregam completamente um ao outro, a escrita é feita de intimidade e vulnerabilidade completas, de filosofia e poesia, e de detalhes reais e fantasiosos, idealizados, eróticos, românticos, dolorosos e vergonhosos. Ela abraça todas as emoções do Elio, das mais intensas e obsessivas às mais simples e impulsivas, sem medo de entregar demais. Foi extremamente corajoso do autor escrever esse livro como seu primeiro. E foi uma honra ler esse livro, fazer parte dessa intimidade que não era minha. Fiquei impressionada quando percebi a quantidade de emoções diferentes que eu tinha já sentido e reconheci no Elio, e mais ainda quando vi quantas sentia em poucas frases. Fiquei ansiosa, plena e feliz, ri às vezes, para frases abaixo perceber toda a tristeza da situação e logo em seguida ser consolada pela beleza desse amor existir. Foram tantas emoções mesmo, que terminei chorando meus olhos fora (choro super fácil com livros, mas esse consegue tirar lágrimas até de quem não chora), daquele tipo de choro que é mais emotivo do que racional. É até um pouco assustador ver meu próprio luto pelo final da história, ainda que ele me dê certo consolo. Não foi só nessa hora que chorei como se tivesse perdido algo valioso que nunca encontraria de novo. Minha parte favorita é a conversa do Elio com seu pai perto do final, e, ainda que o livro já não tivesse me dado nada para pensar ou para sentir antes, ele teria valido completamente a pena só por ela. É difícil dizer se recomendo o livro. Recomendo, é claro, mas tenho medo de fazê-lo cair em mãos de quem não o entenderá ou merecerá. O texto parece difícil de longe, com frases e parágrafos longos, mas que eu lia como se pensasse junto com Elio, quase freneticamente. As falas também são misturadas às vezes em narração, de vez em quando sem qualquer indicação, o que eu achei ótimo, na verdade, não cheguei a ficar confundida sobre quem falava. Nunca poderia imaginar que isso me agradaria, principalmente porque não é do tipo de coisa que agrada a maioria das pessoas. Como eu falei, um livro que fica com você, que te faz repensar muita coisa, invejar dor e se entregar à história. Não é para todo mundo.
B**S
J'ai entendu parler de ce livre comme beaucoup au moment de la sortie du magnifique film de Luca Gadaguino . On faisait tout un foin sur la performance du jeune prodige déjà vu dans "Interstellar" et en lice pour l'Oscar du Meilleur Acteur à seulement 20 ans... Mais moi, c'est surtout le nom du scénariste qui a attiré mon attention: James Ivory... l'incarnation de ce qui se fait de beau et d'élégant dans le cinéma britannique (Les Vestiges du Jour, Howards End...). Après avoir vu le film (que j'ai particulièrement aimé, d'ailleurs) , je me suis jetée sur le livre. J'aurais sans doute dû laisser passer quelques mois car au tout début, j'ai retrouvé quasiment phrase pour phrase les dialogues du film. Du coup, j'ai eu une impression de déjà-vu. Mais cela ne m'a pas empêché d'en savourer la poésie à chaque page. L'écriture est à la fois simple et élégante. Il nous donne une impression de pudeur en même temps qu'il nous bouscule... comme l'est Elio, le personnage de 17 ans. Dans le roman, la différence d'âge (qui m'a quelque peu mise mal à l'aise au début dans le film entre Thimotée Chalamet et Armie Hammer) ne se ressent pas autant. Les sens sont en éveil dans cette Italie rêvée du début des années 80 et on n'est focalisé -tout comme Elio qui connait son premier amour - que sur cet amour sensuel naissant. L'auteur ne nous replace pas durement dans un contexte de début de l'épidémie de SIDA ce qui nous conforte dans cette douceur / violence sentimentale mais éloignée des préoccupations extérieures. Mais ce que j'ai adoré dans ce roman c'est - étonnamment - la partie non exploitée par le film: l'après. Alors que je me disais que c'était une bien jolie histoire d'amour, j'ai été cueillie par l’émotion qui ressort de sa suite. Je ne veux pas gâcher le plaisir du lecteur (j'en ai déjà trop dit!) mais Andre Aciman sait faire vibrer la corde que vous sentiez apaisée. J'ai versé ma larme, j'avoue. Et la tirade du père à son jeune fils (que vous trouvez également dans le film et qui l'a incroyablement magnifié) sur l'amour, le regard des autres, la douleur, le chérissement de cette douleur pour ressentir quelque chose et se sentir vivant, le vieillissement du corps... l'urgence de profiter!) est à faire lire à tous les parents à qui il manque les mots pour parler à leur adolescent - garçon comme fille. A lire en anglais bien sûr si vous avez la chance de maîtriser cette langue mais même sans être bilingue (juste "je me débrouille"), l'effort vaut le coup.
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