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terranstorm 's review for:
Call Me by Your Name
by André Aciman
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
I quite enjoyed this, particularly the exploration of self and relationships/intimacies diverging over time. How returning to the same places evokes this awareness of everything being at once the same and completely different, the past unreachable. How you're not the same you as you layer in all the things you're experienced, and how someone you know intimately becomes someone you don't know because you weren't there for their moments, their thrills and heartbreaks.
Also the study of taking different life paths without simplifying that feeling into regret. At least, not only regret. "Parallel lives." There was joy, too. They were happy. And yet they are aware of having lost something beautiful that only came their way once in their lives.
The ending is meditative and bittersweet. Glad I finally read this.
Also the study of taking different life paths without simplifying that feeling into regret. At least, not only regret. "Parallel lives." There was joy, too. They were happy. And yet they are aware of having lost something beautiful that only came their way once in their lives.
The ending is meditative and bittersweet. Glad I finally read this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content
Moderate: Vomit, Alcohol
Minor: Child death, Homophobia, Death of parent