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André Aciman can be labeled as a scholar of  seventeenth century literature, writing various hit selling novels like Out of Egypt (1995), Eight White Nights (2010), Find Me (2019). His first being Out of Egypt, a memoir of his accounts growing up jewish in post colonial Egypt. He has received a PHD in comparative literature from Harvard university and has taught at the university of Princeton and Bard.

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The formatting of the hit novel, Call Me By Your Name is that of a diary, a collection of vulnerability, and borderline obsessive infatuation. It is personal, usually being narrated by the main protagonist Elio Perlman.

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The novel takes place in Northern Italy, during the mid 80s. It could be considered a slow burn love story, though I would consider it more of a confession, or a harness for potentiality. The main character Elio begins to develop strong feelings for the summer guest Oliver. These feelings are confusing, yet strong enough to prevent him from thinking of anything else. Oliver, however, decides to toy with Elio.
It is revealed later on in the story they both had feelings for each other since the beginning of summer, yet only around the end of Olivers stay was it spoken about.

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I personally chose Call Me By Your Name because of its charming portrayal of falling in love. It is the type of portrayal that makes you feel what the protagonist is feeling, despite you not being written into the story. I relate to the main character, so it has become somewhat of a comfort read for me. It is a story about desire, and the effects of its potency. A hopeless romantic falling in love, in Italy, in the 80s....

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“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
“He came. He left. Nothing else had changed. I had not changed. The world hadn't changed. Yet nothing would be the same. All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.”
“Is it better to speak or die?”
“I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more...”