Even so, after all this, the woman on the train (Miranda) sounded much more like MY soulmate than anything.

He prefers to describe the mechanisms of desire and obsession as a state of mind and set of circumstances linked to identity and memory. André Aciman just happens to populate his novels with sexually loose characterseveryone is sleeping with everyone or having affairs as well as characters who are quite free with their feelings, and give in to love very quickly. Married with three sons, Aciman eschews questions about his own sexuality. Seeking to exploit this adulation, the litfest features Aciman in the About: Sex special (Silent Green, Sep 18, 18:00), where he discusses the presentation of gay sex in literature. Both novels are driven by critically lauded explorations of lust, but it’s CMBYN and its 2017 filmic translation that have become objects of cultish reverence.

Slotted untidily into this year’s focus on LGBTQ authors, André Aciman (born 1951 in Alexandria, Egypt, before emigrating to New York, via Rome and Paris) rides the tide of renewed interest in his 2007 novel Call Me By Your Name (to which he has now written a sequel, due for 2019 publication) as well as the 2019 German translation of his Enigma Variations ( Fünf Lieben lang). The first follows Samuel, Elio’s father, as he travels by train to Rome to visit his son, a pianist and teacher.

André Aciman speaks as part of the About: Sex special on Sep 18, 18:00, at Silent Green. In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elios father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist.

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