In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters two decades after their first meeting.
No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, ...
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters two decades after their first meeting.
No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s haunting Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, it was hailed as “a love letter, an invocation . . . an exceptionally beautiful book” (Stacey D’Erasmo, The New York Times Book Review). Nearly three quarters of a million copies have been sold, and the book became a much-loved, Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Elio and Armie Hammer as Oliver, the graduate student with whom he falls in love.
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.
André Aciman is the author of Eight White Nights, Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations, and is the editor of The Proust Project (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.
他不再说话,专注地看向我,只说了一句:“我想吻你。”
比起进入电梯时的亲吻,这一刻更让我吃惊。他这样说让我觉得我们还从来没有接吻过,和他一起走路回家却不能手牵手的别扭阴霾仍然不曾散去。他放下酒杯,朝我靠近,轻轻柔柔地吻上了我的唇,近乎羞怯,与此同时,正如之前在电梯里接吻时那激烈的背景音,此刻,在房间里播放的微弱的巴西歌曲背后,电梯井里老旧电梯上上下下的声响始终在我耳畔飘荡,我们仿佛是在乡下的屋顶下接吻,雨水猛烈地砸落在屋顶上。我很喜欢这声音,不希望这声音消失,因为在它的魔力下,我感到舒适、安全、有保障,假若四下寂寂无声,我便会胡思乱想,而这背景音的存在则让我无暇理会这间客厅之外的世界,同时让我知道,此刻的一切并非发生在我的想象之中。或许他真正希望的是我们能够慢慢来,不要着急,如果有必要的话,万一事情的发展速度超过我们任何一方的期待,这噪音还能将我拉回去,当然我从未这样后退过。他又吻了我,还是非常轻柔的吻。
“感觉好些没?”他问。
“好多了,请再抱住我。”我想要他抱着我,想用双臂搂住他。他的毛衣贴在我的脸上,我喜欢这质感,喜欢毛线的气味,他腋下的毛衣之下隐隐有清香,那只可能是他身体的香味。
于是我用葡萄牙语小声念诵歌词:
De que serve ter o mapa se o fim está traçado
De que serve a terra à vista se o barco está parado
De que serve ter a chave se a porta está aberta
“翻译一下。”他说。
如果知晓终点,那地图又有何用?
如果船只抛锚,那上岸又有何用?
如果大门敞开,那钥匙又有何用?
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Chapter I is completely a failure; it fulfills no one's desire but Andre Aciman's. For fuck's sake. Such a shitty man! From the beginning to the end I see no Elio nor Oliver, not even Sami; rather, wh...Chapter I is completely a failure; it fulfills no one's desire but Andre Aciman's. For fuck's sake. Such a shitty man! From the beginning to the end I see no Elio nor Oliver, not even Sami; rather, what I see is Aciman everywhere. What he has written had nothing to do with CMBYN. (展开)
not the kind of love stories I would ever read if it wasn’t a CMBYN sequel. Love the Aciman’s style of dialogues and psychological languages though — emotional, delicate and philosophical. It captures...not the kind of love stories I would ever read if it wasn’t a CMBYN sequel. Love the Aciman’s style of dialogues and psychological languages though — emotional, delicate and philosophical. It captures an intangible sense of dire heratche echo throughout this novel, just like CMBYN did. (展开)
一个受过高等教育的孩子,有天赋,啰嗦,极其容易出现内心独白。在Call me by your name中,Aciman令这个孩子成为高度风格化的人物。在他的最新小说find me里,这种风格得到了病毒营销式的延续。书里的每一个人都拥有鸡血能量,热衷浮夸乏味的哲学交谈,精通古典音乐,所有人在...
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70 有用 rye 2019-10-29 04:59:12
3.8。不如第一部那么悠扬了,有点可惜。虽然对话很精致,但是觉得代入感太低了。前半部分关于父亲的故事其实远比后半部分Elio的描述精彩。无论如何都没办法理解Elio喜欢后来的那个人的什么,火花基本上是一丁点都没有。这一本对于CMBYN爱好者来说不是太有必要去读,毕竟这个故事就不应该是个什么系列,只是某种感觉的永恒载体。故事的走向并不重要
11 有用 luoyang 2019-11-20 20:58:16
Chapter I is completely a failure; it fulfills no one's desire but Andre Aciman's. For fuck's sake. Such a shitty man! From the beginning to the end I see no Elio nor Oliver, not even Sami; rather, wh... Chapter I is completely a failure; it fulfills no one's desire but Andre Aciman's. For fuck's sake. Such a shitty man! From the beginning to the end I see no Elio nor Oliver, not even Sami; rather, what I see is Aciman everywhere. What he has written had nothing to do with CMBYN. (展开)
128 有用 Miracle 2019-10-27 20:09:17
大失所望。在前作最后一章已经把故事向后推了数十年后,本书充斥着电影太成功,强行出续的气质。尤其是占据了全书一半篇幅的第一章,像是直接把其他作品拿来改了改。而占据巨大篇幅的寻找leon段落 更是时不时给人一种凑字数的反感。前三分之二几乎变成了中年男人的意淫,而完全靠对话堆砌起来的内容也失掉了前作最撩人心弦的气质。同样是弹奏巴赫的段落,文笔和情感上与前作天差地别。而同样是告白,前作中两人坐在岩石上对话... 大失所望。在前作最后一章已经把故事向后推了数十年后,本书充斥着电影太成功,强行出续的气质。尤其是占据了全书一半篇幅的第一章,像是直接把其他作品拿来改了改。而占据巨大篇幅的寻找leon段落 更是时不时给人一种凑字数的反感。前三分之二几乎变成了中年男人的意淫,而完全靠对话堆砌起来的内容也失掉了前作最撩人心弦的气质。同样是弹奏巴赫的段落,文笔和情感上与前作天差地别。而同样是告白,前作中两人坐在岩石上对话的张力在本作中荡然无存。最后一章由尴尬引起的本应深入讨论的问题却被一笔带过,类似的剧情在第一章你可是花了五页在讨论!这不是那本我期待的两年前改变了我人生的作品的续作。 (展开)
30 有用 momo 2019-10-29 04:03:16
not the kind of love stories I would ever read if it wasn’t a CMBYN sequel. Love the Aciman’s style of dialogues and psychological languages though — emotional, delicate and philosophical. It captures... not the kind of love stories I would ever read if it wasn’t a CMBYN sequel. Love the Aciman’s style of dialogues and psychological languages though — emotional, delicate and philosophical. It captures an intangible sense of dire heratche echo throughout this novel, just like CMBYN did. (展开)
27 有用 jacqui 2019-11-03 05:27:32
因为一只母鸡下了一只好蛋,所以想去看看这只母鸡的其他产物,并不是一个很好的主意。什么乱七八糟的小说。莫非cmbyn真的只是一个昙花一现的传说?!