Between 3−4 stars rating, 04 January 2018 A summer of discovery
By: Nursida Dewi
I never anticipated that it would get under my skin like it's finished. What's more, I absolutely never anticipated that would read scenes that should have spurned me and rather get myself captivated, ate up by it, and maybe somewhat desirous.
This isn't only a coming out story. It may be depicted as a coming-of-age novel, yet at the same time, that doesn't do justice to the book. It's somewhat a book about connecting. About finding an red thread with someone else, so solid it's relatively rough, a connection that makes such a wreck of your feelings you can't exactly discover the words to depict it. Is it love? Desire? Obsession?
... See More Loathing? Addiction?
At last we'll most likely discover it is every one of them and none.
A splendid novel, that, amidst the sexual frustration (and disarray), likewise manages an issue I feel emphatically about: trust. Things happen, and are portrayed in this book, should warrant a NSFW cautioning, yet as much as they may seem to have a sexual nature, they're significantly more about closeness, about believing somebody enough to exposing yourself totally before them. To by one means or another wind up in that other individual. It's something that is gotten in the book a few times, uniquely in the demonstration the title alludes to; calling each other by their own names. As though to state, 'I get it. I am you, you are me'.
At the end of the day: Call Me by Your Name is about being seventeen, fumbling in the dark to find ways to make this connection real, to somehow make it more than just a feeling between two people, to, for even only a passing minute, trap it in something physical, something substantial - and dreamily explores first love.
Between 4−5 stars rating, 16 May 2024