Erje Ayden: Sadness At Leaving, 1. painos, 1972

Erje Ayden: Sadness At Leaving, 1. painos, 1972, Geronimo Books Company, New York, First edition

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Pulp fiction writer Erje Ayden's coy novel is his most autobiographical work—if one accepts his claim that he worked as a spy for the Turkish government in the 1960s and 70s.


Etusivulla Erje Ayden nimikirjoitus ja omistusteksti vuodelta 2001.


ERJE AYDEN was born in Istanbul to a Turco-Russian family. In the 1950s he worked as spy in Paris. He moved to New York in 1957 where he started writing performance and prose pieces and befriended, among others, Willem de Kooning and Frank O’Hara. In the 1960s and 70s his novels The Crazy Green of Second Avenue, Sadness at Leaving, and From Hauptbahnhof I Took a Train became cult bestsellers, and he has since published over two dozen books, including Lost Cloud, a collection of short stories from the last 50 years.


"The writer Erje Ayden is one of the most intriguing, and lesser known, figures of the New York City art and literature scene of the 1950s and 60s. Here we present a short non-fiction performance text by Ayden, as well as appreciations from Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery and Jim Fletcher."



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Hakusanat: The Crazy Green of Second Avenue and The Legend of Erje Ayden Chris Kraus