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Cagaloglu, with its cheap hotel rooms and morning coffees, hosting junkies; Sultanahmet with its guitar-playing hippies, drug dealers looking for goods and chasing connections to sell anywhere in the world, anti-war activists on a European tour; Tophane, with its opium addicts, auto thieves, fraudsters, muggers, and unidentified dead on the streets, waiting for dealers to salivate in its coffeehouses... Berlin, with its occupied houses, communes, and student organizations; Frankfurt with its immigrant workers and unhappy patrons filling the taverns...

Jörg Fauser, who is considered one of the most important representatives of German underground literature today, tried to light the fire of revolution in the hearts of Baader-Meinhof with a different Istanbul with its Beatniks from all over the world and the cholera epidemic. It tells an autobiographical struggle for self-realization that oscillates between Germany and Germany. Although this struggle, in which existence was perhaps only possible by writing and having one's writings published, was of course interrupted by the high walls of the culture-art community, which closed its doors to different voices that day, the Hammadde you hold in your hands is the most concrete evidence that Fauser won this struggle.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 287

Print Year: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Sel Publishing

First Printing Year: 2015

Number of Pages: 287

Language: Turkish