Call Me By Your Name: First excerpt from sequel reveals what happened to Elio and Oliver after summer of love
'Find Me' picks up in Paris, where Elio converses with another man
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Your support makes all the difference.A first except from the Call Me By Your Name sequel sheds light on what happened to Elio and Oliver after their defining summer together.
André Aciman, the author of the 2007 novel adapted into a movie by Luca Guadagnino in 2017, will be publishing Find Me later this month.
An excerpt published on Friday by Vanity Fair sees Elio in Paris, France, conversing with a man named Michel, 15 years after the event depicted in the original novel.
Elio (portrayed by Timothée Chalamet in the film), who is now a music teacher, tells Michel that he does miss Oliver (Armie Hammer) occasionally, especially when he’s alone.
“But it doesn’t intrude, doesn’t make me sad. I can go entire weeks without thinking of him,” Elio adds. “Sometimes I want to tell him things, but then I put it off, and even telling myself that I’m putting it off gives me some pleasure, though we may never speak.”
Elio goes on to reveal that he’s had few relationships since Oliver and that all were short-lived.
“Maybe because I never really let go or lose myself with others,” he tells Michel. “After an instant of passion, I always fall back to being the autonomous me.”
The excerpt also reveals that Oliver is now a teacher in the US, his native country, and acknowledges his marriage to a woman. His engagement is a major plot point in Call Me By Your Name.
“We haven’t spoken in ages, and I don’t know that we’re friends, though I’m sure we will always be,” Elio says of Oliver.
“He’s always read me extremely well, and I have a feeling that he suspects that if I never write it’s not because I don’t care but because a part of me still does and always will, just as I know he still cares, which is why he too never writes. And knowing this is good enough for me.”
Find Me will be released on 29 October.
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