Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by Andre Aciman
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Book Summary Author: Andre Aciman Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2008-01-22 ISBN: 031242678X Number of pages: 256 Publisher: Picador |
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Book Reviews of the Call Me by Your Name: A Novel
Customer Review: A hauntingly beautiful study of regret
Summary: 5 Stars
What can be said about the place of regret in the healing process? And what can we do with the feelings that regret awaken in us, once love and its attendant gifts are no longer a part of our present day? Carl Jung has said that the heart remembers the great things that span the whole of our lives, including the experiences which we do nothing to arrange, but which we ourselves suffer. Once gone from us, do we return to these past experiences as forgotten sorrows, hungry but hopeful that our memories will leave us sated and complete? Or do we walk past the well of our memories with little interest in the sweet taste of love that once left us thirsty with longing?
In his debut novel, Call Me By Your Name, Andre' Aciman considers, with elegant and brutal reflection, the damage that the passage of time invokes on a relationship that lives on as memory only, long after the goodbyes have been spoken. A precocious teenager and an open-minded graduate student share a type of intimacy that will forever alter the course of their lives. And it will also mark the summer of their short time together with feelings of regret and sadness. Does either find their way to happier, or more fulfilling relationships? Aciman never reveals. What he does offer is something more of an invitation to the reader; an invitation to explore the regret that is stirred in each of us upon remembering a love which never fully reached its honest conclusion.
In life, as in Aciman's beautiful book, it is the words that are never spoken that haunt us and keep us connected to our sorrow and our regret. And in wrestling with our regret we learn that, it is only once we dignify our goodbyes with honesty that we can fully allow love to transform us, even as it carries us farther away from who we were once were.