call me by your name novel by andré aciman

The two quickly form a bond over a shared love of classical music that was given to them by their fathers, who both taught them music. In the second chapter of Find Me, the reader finds Elio some time after his time in Rome, now living in Paris, where he meets Michel, an older and attractive Frenchman, during intermission at a chamber music concert. Related: Timothee Chalamet Shares Leonardo DiCaprio's Career Advice So if three out of the four chapters from the novel Find Me are likely to be scrapped by Guadagnino to preserve the Merchant-Ivory magic of the first film, what is left from the sequel novel for the filmmaker to put up on screen? I don’t wanna move on to twenty-five years and come back to these characters who were then sort of raking over the ashes of their first love.’ I thought that that was kind of a downer.” I want to end the story at the height of emotion and feeling in the story. ‘I don’t wanna have the ending of the book. In an interview at TIFF in 2018, James Ivory said: Ivory would easily cut all of these out since he already cut similar episodic chapters from Aciman’s book Call Me By Your Name, including a similar ending from the first book. It is almost certain that none of these chapters will make the cut in a film adaptation. The final and shortest chapter features Elio and Oliver back together, raising Samuel and Miranda’s child, meaning that Elio is raising his half-sibling with his older lover from many years ago. At a party, Oliver flirts with a man and a woman, who, if combined into one person, he believes would add up to Elio. En route to visit his now-adult son, Elio, who has become a career classical pianist, Samuel has an affair with a much younger woman, Miranda, whom he meets on the train.Īnother chapter concerns Oliver (played by Armie Hammer in Call Me), now a family man and professor, still living in New England but dreaming of a return trip to Europe.

In the first and longest chapter Samuel Perlman (the father character played brilliantly by Michael Stulhbarg in Call Me) takes a train from Florence to Rome. In Find Me, Aciman brings readers back into the lives of the main characters from Call Me By Your Name with four episodic love affairs split into chapters of varying length. Related: Every Luca Guadagnino Movie, Ranked

Call me by your name novel by andré aciman