CALL ME BY MY NAME BY NINA BOURAOUI – A LOVE DECLARATION TO THE READER?

Abstract

Call me by my name (Appelez-moi par mon prénom) is a text constituting a love declaration addressed to writing, to the Reader (with capital letter) and to love itself. The novel examines the issue of the link between the writer and the Readers, the impact the Reader might have on the personality of the writer and the writing process itself and how the Reader turns into a cherished person. This is the story of the birth of a passion; this is the adventure of a narrator who, in the course of her search of identity, discovers in her the woman in love.