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Author behind Call Me By Your Name says he believes ‘everyone is polyamorous in one way or the other’ – as he recounts learning about sex from prostitutes in new memoir
The author behind Call Me By Your Name has confessed he believes ‘everyone is polyamorous in one way or another’ – as he opened up about his unusual childhood.
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André Aciman, 73, who wrote the novel which inspired the notoriously racy film, was born in Alexandria, but spent his youth travelling between Egypt, Italy and the US.
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His new memoir, My Roman Year, recounts the teenage years Mr Aciman spent in the Italian capital, thinking mostly, he explains, about ‘sex and books’.
The author recounts how he learned about sex from prostitutes, which he says is a ‘terrible way to understand sex and sexuality… but that is how it was done in those days’.
André Aciman, 73, who wrote the novel which inspired the notoriously racy film, was born in Alexandria, but spent his youth travelling between Egypt , Italy and the US
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André Aciman, 73, who wrote the novel which inspired the notoriously racy film, was born in Alexandria, but spent his youth travelling between Egypt , Italy and the US
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In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Aciman tells the Sunday Times how he was expelled from Alexandria in the 1960s, part of a significant exodus of Jews in the Middle East after the Suez crisis.
The author’s first novel – Out of Egypt – details this experience, and the six novels that followed were typically intense and erotic – and mostly set in Italy.
His most famous – Call Me By Your Name – was adapted into a film in 2017, starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, and winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The film is overwhelmingly a love story, following Elio and Oliver – a couple with a significant age gap – over a summer in Italy.
His most famous novel – Call Me By Your Name – was adapted into a film in 2017, starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, and winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
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His most famous novel – Call Me By Your Name – was adapted into a film in 2017, starring Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, and winning the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
The film is overwhelmingly a love story, following Elio and Oliver – a couple with a significant age gap – over a summer in Italy
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The film is overwhelmingly a love story, following Elio and Oliver – a couple with a significant age gap – over a summer in Italy
It involves some intense love scenes, as is typical of his work, a practice which led Mr Aciman to wonder: ‘Isn’t everybody polyamorous in one way or another?’
He says: ‘Aren’t we all? Do we still have to go by labels? I hate labels.
‘I hate nationalities, I hate religions.
‘I hate anything that identifies you with one group and not with the other.’
It involves some intense love scenes, as is typical of his work, a practice which led Mr Aciman to wonder: ‘Isn¿t everybody polyamorous in one way or another?’
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It involves some intense love scenes, as is typical of his work, a practice which led Mr Aciman to wonder: ‘Isn¿t everybody polyamorous in one way or another?’
However, asked if the story of Call Me By My Name was inspired by his own experiences with men, Mr Aciman says: ‘That’s one question I won’t answer.’
But he does recount an experience he had on a crowded bus, when he leaned into an older male stranger.
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‘There was definitely something and it told me more about myself than I knew. It told me that I was open to that thing, to that experience, if it were to happen in my life,’ Mr Aciman says.
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