I saw the translated version of this book on Douban, and I never turned over the first 50 pages when I made a special trip back to kino, Po Island last year. Recently, I remembered that I entered the kindle version and finally finished reading it. Call Me by Your Name (by André Aciman) is a book that I have wanted to read for a long time, but it is always difficult to finish. I want to read this book because I found it inexplicably. It is difficult to read because many times what Aciman wrote was not specific events, but abstract senses, emotions and thoughts derived from a little realistic details, especially the first chapter; In addition, Aciman's extreme use of language determines that reading this book is more laborious than reading ordinary novels. It is for this reason that this is the most beautiful book I can recall in my limited active memory. The language is beautiful. The Italian seaside town with the story as the background is beautiful in summer. Elio is beautiful and Oliver is beautiful. They are pitifully short and honest with each other. The intersection of each other's feelings is beautiful, and the game that calls me in the name of Jun is beautiful. I don't know why I have always had the illusion that "the ending is that two people are finally together after many years", so I watched it defenseless. By the time I read 70%, there was no sign of a happy ending, and I began to question the illusion I took for granted. Maybe Aciman wasn't ready to make the ending happy from the beginning. So that after watching it for a long time, I have a feeling of Melanie, just like a comment on goodreads said. Of course, all the developments after that summer were depressing. The saddest detail is that when we meet again ten or twenty years later, Elliot's mouth didn't get Oliver's response. The other party's response was "Oliver." He has forgotten. "。 If Aciman's attempt is to put forward this detail at the end and push the tragedy to a climax, then at least he is very successful as a reader. A very simple story, actually, is narrated by Aciman, whose book is full of pen and ink. The protagonist's decades of life and emotional development are very rational and realistic. The love stories written by Romans and Aciman are so rational and realistic that the stories written by Qiong Yao suddenly become naive and even absurd. There is no stalking and beating in the oriental cultural circle from time to time, and no one can't live without sleeping and eating, and there are not too many extremes or excessive extremes. Just as there is an absolutely clear role division in the discussion of "who attacks who suffers" when two men are together in the Asian cultural circle, just like a recent post in Douban () said that the values of Europeans and Americans towards relations are generally very different from those of the East. I don't mean to belittle Qiong Yao's works or oriental culture, but I personally think that the attitude and value orientation of Europeans and Americans towards relations are more suitable for the real world in which we live. Of course, these attitudes and values cannot be accurately described or summarized by pasting a few movies and novels. It is precisely because of this that reading, reading and listening have suddenly made a 360-degree turn recently. Japanese Taiwan Province movies and novels have never come into contact, including the legendary "Those Years". A little will always have a deeper understanding. When Oliver said on the overseas phone that he was going to get married, Elio calmly sent his blessing without crying. The same Elliot remembers the name game in the summer when Oliver returned to the Italian summer resort twenty years later. This is why I think what Aciman wrote is realistic, rational and emotional at the same time. We've only been together for two months, and half of them are two men who can't go to man show. In order to cover up the cold war on each other's feelings, it is not true if the feelings after the cold war have crossed the gap between distance and age, and the spanning time is still extremely strong after n years. Therefore, when people learn that Oliver is married, Elio will be angry, but any too strong reaction will be abrupt. Oliver, as a 7-year-old professor at the University of Elliot, and as an adult man, the feelings he developed in less than two months may be nostalgic at first, but they will disappear after a long time, which is more reasonable. Ask Oliver if he really loved Elliot. There is no doubt that the question is how long love can last. Ask Elliot if he loves Oliver enough to leave him. Absolutely not. Twenty years have passed in intermittent reunion. It is the feeling that "life goes on without him and the world is still spinning, but he has never completely disappeared in his heart for many years, and there is always a place for him, or he has never completely let go", which makes people feel emotional. I don't know exactly what it feels like. It suddenly occurred to me that "you are the only one in the world". Maybe for Elio, Oliver is the only one in the world. It would be too simple for P.S. to simply classify this book as gay literature/gay love. Elliot and Oliver both look bisexual, not to mention that the emotions in the book are not limited to or applicable to two men.

Pure personal opinion, don't spray if you don't like it ~