Line #10 Literature/CallMeByYourName


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2	->''"Is it better to speak or to die?"''
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4	''Call Me by Your Name'' is a 2007 novel by André Aciman.
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6	In the summer of 1987, seventeen-year-old Elio Perlman and his parents accept American academic Oliver as a guest in their house along the Italian Riviera. Elio deals with his burgeoning attraction to the carefree, charismatic, intelligent Oliver, who he doubts reciprocates his feelings, and comes of age in the process.
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8	The book [[TheFilmOfTheBook was adapted]] into a [[Film/CallMeByYourName 2017 film]] directed by Creator/LucaGuadagnino, starring Creator/TimotheeChalamet as Elio and Creator/ArmieHammer as Oliver.
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10	Inspired by the success of the film, Aciman wrote a sequel to the book titled ''Find Me'' published in October 2019. Set some time after the original, it follows Elio's (recently divorced) father Samuel as he visits his son in Rome —now a classical pianist— and experiences major changes to his own life, while Oliver (now a father and professor) is contemplating a return to Europe himself.
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13	!!This novel contains examples of:
14	* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Vimini, who is a perky, intelligent, mature child despite her leukemia and well-loved by the other characters.
15	* AgeGapRomance: The mid-twenties Oliver with Elio and Chiara, who are both teenagers. It's implied that nothing physical happened with the latter, though, although she did have a big crush on him.
16	* BittersweetEnding: The book ends with Elio and Oliver [[spoiler:consummating their passion far too late in the summer, and Oliver leaves and abruptly marries some months later. Contact between Elio and Oliver falters and cools, and even decades later, Elio never moves on from Oliver and is even jealous of the latter's wife and children. Both Vimini and Elio's father die, and his mother becomes senile and suspicious. Oliver also eventually forgets their game of calling each other by their own names, which depresses Elio, though in the book's last meeting, Oliver claims he hasn't forgotten anything, which Elio hopes is true]]. The only thing keeping it from a straight DownerEnding is the memories and passion that the couple shared is worth the heartbreak that follows.
17	* DisposableLoveInterest: Both Chiara and Marzia for Oliver and Elio respectively. They cease to serve significant roles once [[spoiler:Elio and Oliver act on their feelings]].
18	* FastForwardToReunion: The book ends with [[spoiler:Elio and Oliver separating at the end of the summer and meeting again in America many years later, with Oliver marrying and having children in the interim while Elio never quite moved on from him.]]
19	* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: [[spoiler:Elio has difficulty moving on from Oliver, despite spending decades apart.]]
20	* GilliganCut: After Elio nearly has sex with Marzia, he promises not to tell anyone about it. In the very next scene, he announces it at the kitchen table, partly to try to make Oliver jealous.
21	* InformedJudaism: The Jewish characters are nonobservant and are, as one character puts it, "Jews of discretion." The reader knows that they are Jewish either from their wearing stars of David or simply from their say-so.
22	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Oliver and Vimini become fast friends despite an age difference of over ten years; Elio never begrudges this pure, heartwarming, and close friendship. [[spoiler:After Oliver leaves, Vimini writes to Oliver every single day until her death.]]
23	* LecherousLicking: Elio licks Oliver's ''eyelid'' at one point.
24	* {{Nosebleed}}: Oliver's teasing gives Elio a massive nosebleed during a meal, which drips into his food.
25	* OldFlame: Elio's feelings persist even years later, after [[spoiler:Oliver has married and had children]].
26	* QueerRomance: The two romantic leads are bisexual men.
27	* RuleOfSymbolism: A twenty-four year old man falling in ''platonic'' love with a dying little girl makes perfect symbolic sense in context of the book's themes about the passage of time and the end of innocence, but it's easy to see why she was adapted out of the film to avoid unfortunate implications.
28	* SceneryPorn: Aciman describes the Italian countryside in lush detail.
29	* SingleTargetSexuality: Downplayed. Elio does display attraction to people besides Oliver, but is most passionate around him and [[spoiler:never really moves on from him, even decades later.]]
30	* TimeSkip: The ending. [[spoiler: Elio and Oliver meet in their thirties, with Elio never quite moving on from him.]]
31	* TitleDrop: Elio and Oliver make a little game out of calling each other by their name.
32	-->"Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine."

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