By Erje Ayden
I wonder whether it's lustful
A tank in its dreams
What do airplanes think
while left alone?
We didn't search happiness
We invented sadness
have been we no longer of this world?
—Orhan Veli, epigram to Sadness at Leaving
throughout the Nineteen Sixties and 70s, Turkish-born Erje Ayden served as residence pulp fiction author to the hot York institution of painters and poets. good friend and someday bodyguard to the artist Willem De Kooning, Ayden self-published 7 pop novels, written in speedy amphetamine bursts in borrowed residences and rooming homes. Sadness at Leaving, re-published through Semiotext(e) in 1998, is Ayden's so much autobiographical work—if one accepts, as he claims, that he labored as a undercover agent for the Turkish executive all through these years.
East Berlin, 1959: Following the erection of the Berlin wall, unique agent Carl Halman is assigned by means of East German intelligence to maneuver to big apple the place he'll "sleep" as a author until eventually he's referred to as. utilizing the code-name "April 23," Carl effectively infiltrates the uptown-downtown literary global in Fifties manhattan. He edits undefined, follows the Knicks, and marries Melinda, the socialite spouse of best-selling jock novelist Hubert Cleaver, Ayden's hilarious Norman Mailer pastiche. via Carl's eyes, we see long island urban swap from an outpost of Europe to the recent capital of an anarchistic, post-ideological global. yet then, whilst Carl least expects it, he's known as.
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