Weve been reporting on the International Literature festival in berlin writers from around the world are here to give readings discussion panels workshops and generally made to greet their fellow walthers and of course their fans the writer and i asked a man will be with me in a minute but 1st more about the festival. Celebration at literature the International Literature festival is happening now in the german capital t. V. You can not only listen to those reading from their works but discuss all manner of topics with literature fans from All Over The World. There are 200 authors from 59 countries and someone from our team counted them there are very many languages being spoken. There are also cross disciplinary events inspired by young adult literature. French author clementine birthdays coming of age story people its for example gets a magical transformation courtesy of pupils from the berlin ballet school. Its made to feel ive never seen all the different chapters of the novel danc
we know and that s the end of that if they don t say and this becomes a big mystery to each other i think that 1st then you have an open field and there are so many interpretations it becomes richer and of course when they say call me by your name and i ll call you by my what they re really saying is we are transferring identities back and forth and if you are capable of doing that you have a state of intimacy that s far superior to just oh i love you. you mention intimacy that you said in another interview that writing called me by your name has taught you about intimacy and love and this intrigues me because you you of the right so it s your experience so how is it teaching you how is your writing teaching you about intimacy and because as you re writing you re not just putting words on the computer you re actually discovering things in the world in yourself