If the reader wants to shout, 'Oh grow up, you’ve only just met!' at the characters, then something’s gone awry Ultimately, it does not make them seem evolved but narcissistic, shallow and a little immature. Instead they know from their first interaction that they’re destined to be together, revelling in the authenticity of their affections.
No one in an Aciman novel can ever just go on a few dates and see how things work out. Love lies at the heart of his books, but as a concept rather than a reality. While the elegance of his prose and the sophistication of his characters are to be admired, his creations rarely seem human, speaking in a pompous fashion where everyone, regardless of age or circumstance, is intimately familiar with classical music and philosophy.
Having read much of Aciman’s work, I find his writing intriguing and maddening in equal parts. Instead, the pair engage in a long and erudite conversation that leads them to spending the day together and waiting no more than a few hours to agree that theirs is the greatest love affair since Orpheus first set eyes on Eurydice. It’s a brave conceit in 2019, when any suggestion of impropriety between an older man and a younger woman is generally given short shrift, but there’s no touching or hand-holding here, no lewd comments or sexual innuendo. The former, the father of the young pianist Elio from the earlier novel, is at least 30 years older than the latter. Find Me is a sequel to Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman’s 2007 novel that became an Oscar-winning film, and it begins in the same way as Linklater’s movie, but rather than the protagonists being a couple of twentysomethings, Samuel and Miranda have a greater disparity between their ages.
I n Richard Linklater’s film Before Sunrise, two strangers meet on a train, strike up a conversation and soon find themselves wandering around Vienna, intoxicated by each other’s presence and recognising that from a chance encounter a great romance might have begun.
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