Despite his first novel becoming a bestseller and a successful Hollywood film he insists his life hasn’t changed. And if you’re in love with someone and you’re not obsessed by them: what are you?”Īciman teaches literature at a post-graduate university in New York. “Obsessive love is the only kind that exists,” Aciman declares when I ask if he thinks that level of fervour exists exclusively in adolescence. It made for evocative reading, but intoxicating cinema, because on screen, everything that happens between Elio and Oliver is intensified: exchanges more lascivious, kisses more urgent. Its plot captures the furtive thrills, frissons and torments of first love between two young American men, whose romance unfolds amid the Italian Riviera’s soft, muscular hills and sun-pummelled cobbles. When Call Me By Your Name came out in 2007, it earned its author comparisons to Proust and a spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Aciman has finally written a sequel, and he’s aware of the expectation. “I think I’m probably one of the very few writers who doesn’t feel cheated by an adaptation of their work. “I adored the film,” Aciman tells me down the phone from his home in New York. But Andre Aciman was anything but when his debut novel, Call Me By Your Name, became an Academy Award-nominated adaptation 10 years after the book’s release. When a film becomes more famous than the book it’s based on, you can understand why the author might feel aggrieved.
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