These characters are so unreal-she a wet dream, he a cipher-that any specificity at all becomes embarrassing, as if Aciman were revealing his particular turn-ons. What I meant to say was I didn’t know what life was before this. (“ ‘Where did they invent you?’ I said when we were resting. Samuel, meanwhile, is a divorced scholar who believes that he has missed his chance at love he’s quick with what are received, within the world of the book, as acute remarks, unless he’s post-coitally outsourcing his eloquence to the German Romantics. Within twenty-four hours of meeting Samuel, Miranda is sobbing in his bed, entreating him to have her baby (“I want it from you and no one else-even if we never see each other after this weekend”), and offering to tattoo a lighthouse (she calls his penis “my lighthouse”) onto her genitals. She takes black-and-white photographs and makes forgettable observations that prompt Samuel to marvel at her brilliance. Miranda is model-gorgeous but dressed carelessly her demeanor is a mix of wryness, impetuousness, and tenderness. The longest section belongs to Samuel and his paramour, Miranda. Then it’s back to Elio, in a coda that doesn’t so much sink softly under the waves as crash, like a drunk on a scooter, into the beachside ice-cream stand.
The perspective switches to Elio, who remains haunted by memories of Oliver while pursuing Michel, a lawyer nearly twice his age, and to Oliver, now a professor in the United States, who is throwing a party with his wife and lusting after two guests. En route, Samuel meets a twentysomething woman with whom he conducts an affair. The book picks up a decade or so after the main action of “Call Me by Your Name,” with Samuel, Elio’s father, on a train to Rome to visit his son, who has become a classical pianist. That sequel has arrived, in the form of “ Find Me,” Aciman’s new novel. Luca Guadagnino, the movie’s director, and Timothée Chalamet, one of its stars, were rumored to be among the many people clamoring for a sequel to the source text.
The book established Aciman as a poet of the drunken senses this magazine described him as an “ acute grammarian of desire.” The film, which grossed 41.9 million dollars at the global box office, seduced both viewers and critics, who declared it “ravishing,” “a lush and vibrant masterpiece.” Then it ended in heartbreak as gentle as the sun slipping beneath the sea. It conjured a swoony romance between two young men, Elio and Oliver, in an Italian seaside town. The novel “ Call Me by Your Name,” by André Aciman, was published in 2007 and adapted into a movie in 2017.
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