Author André Aciman: 'I wrote about gay love, not realising I was taking on the taboo' 

What an engaging man! Didn’t want the interview to end. So nice to hear an intelligent exchange of ideas.

He's such an genius I would love to have him as a professor, he's so wise and he's still so underated

I saw the movie just because I had watched the Oscars. I watched it again, on the same night, because I wasn't quite sure what I'd seen. I read the book because I no longer had any doubt that I'd just seen something I'd take with me forever. Four years later...still thinking about the book.....the *book*.....

This gentleman is fascinating! A wonderful interview! Thank you so much.

he speaks as he writes. what a gem in the world of literature.

"Is it love if there is no obsession" -Andre aciman

So much admiration and respect for this man. I saw the movie CMBYN and was able read the books including Find Me. Thanks for sharing your talent and telling the world that love is all we want. At the end of the day all we ever want is to feel that we are special, that we are admired and that we are loved. ❤️

Such an intelligent and beautiful man with bright mind

04:07 I was 14 when I left, so "I REMEMBER EVERYTHING" ..... I died y'all , I died

i'm truly disappointed in people nowadays, i listened to this interview and i love it, it touched my heart, this man touched my heart, his words and way of thinking, he is truly a good person. and i knew that people will find him naive, because he sees the good in people and believes in a world that can be and do better. its such a disappointment to see the way you people think and act and take people words. i started crying reading your comments and other comments that I've read along the internet about mister Andre and his book. how dare you people call him a pedophile, how dare you? he is surely not one. and be serious right now, there have been so many cases of minors being with adults, what does even make a person an adult? if we take it by law, a person over 18 is an adult, but do we even ask ourselves, are they truly and mentally an adult? a 16 years old or 17 or etc can be more of an adult then a 20-25 years old. I've had a family friend she was 33 i think, she had a kid, and she acted like a kid, she had only 4 classes of education, she didn't even go to middle school, you cannot call that women mentally an adult, yes by law she is, but mentally she is not, and i am not saying this just because she didn't had a good education, i am saying this because i stayed with her and had a lot of conversations and she wasn't mentally grown. i dont want to say bad words about anyone right now, but you are the ones that are shallow and dont have a truly understanding of the world, you arent spiritually mature enough, or at all. life is beautiful, people are beautiful, and people do make mistakes, stop talking trash about obama, he only wanted good for this planet/world, he loved you and us. i am not an american citizen, i am from europe, but i know he only wanted good for his country. you people only see the bad in the others and criticize any little mistake, but Mister Andre on the other hand wants to see the good in people and has a better understanding of the world then most of us. please have more empathy and love is not disgusting, even if the person is 17 and the other one is 24 . if there is communication and understanding and the older person is not taking advantage of the the other person, then there is nothing wrong. love is so beautiful and we shouldn't criticize others for their love, because we wouldn't want to be criticize. be kind and be accepting, because we want to be accepted for who we are so we should accept others too. and dont you dare toy with my words and trying to make arguments like 'ohh so we should accept all, so pedophiles and zoophiles and etc are okay too? because its love?' because ive seen people try and twist others people words. i never said that, and the true meaning of pedophilia is a person who is sexually attracted to children. a 17 years old is a teenager, not a child, and yes if a 40 years old or a even a 30 years old would want to be with a teenager, yes that would be pedophilia, and it isnt okay, because there are 2 different worlds, of a 30-40 and 16-17 years old. but once again this kind of things cant be explained and understood with only a few words, everything is different. now once again BE KIND and stop being ignorant people, and have a change of heart and be open to new perspectives and understandings

He celebrated Christmas like Elio. I wonder if Elio's move to be more open and proprietary about his Jewishness despite having multiple other identities he could exist in while not standing out was Acimans way of confronting his own complicated feelings towards this identity.

Thanks Channel 4 for this interview - I've read of speaking events across American by Mr Aciman so this was lovely getting to hear him for myself. :-)

The thing about being Jewish is that no matter how much you want to eliminate this fact, how assimilated, when it comes down to it, non-Jews will never let you forget.

Wonderful interview with a great thinker.

What an inspiring man! I wish I could have a chat with him.

One of the best writers and just man that has ever existed in this century.

Such an inspiration!! His story of not belonging, of being seen as a foreigner in the country of your birth - resonates so much with me! I am an Indian who is half bengali and half mizo and I look more south east asian than "Indian" because of my mizo mother and yet to my mother's side of the family and people from my hometown, I look too much like an outsider, a 'vai'. To the rest of India, I look either Nepali or somewhere from south east asia.

Thank you, internet, for giving me an opportunity to meet this miracle of a man.

Thanks a lot for interview, I love André Aciman, s book and himself as a great great hunman

Intelligent and witty and charming. And a good person. WOW

I love everything André Aciman says. Thank you!

This movie is about two souls. I hate to put them in a catalog of gender, there are just two human being having found each other and having recognized their chemistry and accepted their love. Thank you for the book. The movie is great, and the book is therapy :)

4:08 I remember everything

What a genius!! RESPECT

Right-wingers may preach "moral" concepts but hypocritically practice the opposite.

awesome interview, uniquely pertinent in a time of right wing hysteria and the delusional grinder social media platforms.

Great interview. He is a treasure!

5:50 - When a jewish guy and muslim guy undress, I don't think there is any difference. Aciman being a learned man should know this fact.

Call Me By Your Name is the best, not only as a gay themed book, but as a book in general. It captures me, in all its forms. What a beautiful book only to be surpassed by the beauty of its author, Andre. Thank you for making it. It's a masterpiece and I am very happy to have experienced it.

What a beautiful soul

Beautiful

Good interview....bril...thanks.

I'm surprised the interviewer didn't get this guy to walk out like he usually does.

He speaks in long form essays. This isn't an interview/conversation.

Una maravilla este escritor como volcar en palabras sentimientos q.no es fácil transmitir me encanta leer y los libros q.llegan son los de q.te hacen parte de la historia y el final te deja un mensaje lo felicito!!!

Where can I read the dissertations Andre wrote?

makes sense that he started as a poet. his texts are filled with quotables.

You bring yourself where ever you go. Wow

What a wonderful man.

They are teaching in Alabama that people that are not married should be intentionally unemployed. They teach this in church and they try to enforce it a variation of this at the University in bad grades.

15:29 "can you think of someone who's truly truly evil? i can't think of anyone....basically nobody's really that evil and people like being kind..." OH GOD, really..... (hitler/donald trump/hitler/donald trump/hitler again...)

Una lastima q.estos reportajes no sean subtitulados al español ...

I mean just so courageous 🙄

Cuando se escribe de esta forma es pq.es amante de la libertad

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This wasn’t a ‘gay’ movie it was a predatory movie. A 17yr old boy entering a relationship with a grown man is predatory by nature. I can’t believe it was given a green light & given an Academy Award.

10:15

This explains why i found the film so weird & out of touch.. The person behind it is a balding straight man.

HE SAID HE WAS ATTRACTED TO 12 YEAR OLD GIRLS, LITERALLY SEXUALLY ATTRACTED, WTFFFFF WHY IS HE SAYING HE

Up the old marmite motorway..... beautiful.🤢🤮