![]() ![]() Here Elio painstakingly analyses Oliver’s cool parting words, a fitting preview for the rest of the book where he overthinks and fantasises about every interaction with Oliver, real or imagined. ![]() Elio usually resents this as it means losing his room to what he calls “bores”, but he falls in love/lust with Oliver at first sight. Every year Elio’s father offers up their home to a young writer as a sort of residency so they can work on their manuscripts for a few weeks in the idyllic Italian Riviera. In the first lines of Call Me by Your Name we see the beginning of Elio’s, an intelligent and impossibly well-read Jewish Italian 17-year-old, obsession with Oliver, a 24-year-old American academic who has come to stay with Elio’s family for the summer. It is the first thing I remembered about him, and I can hear it still today. It sounded harsh, curt, and dismissive, spoken with the veiled indifference of people who may not care to see or hear from you again. ![]() I’d never heard anyone use “later” to say goodbye before. ” ‘ Later!‘ The word, the voice, the attitude. ![]()
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