that Black American author and playwright James Baldwin had met a young Turkish actor, Engin Cezzar in New York, whom he had cast as the lead in a play he had adapted from his own “Giovanni’s Room” for the Actor’s Studio. That was in 1958.
It is in such a situation that Baldwin took on a magazine assignment to travel to Israel and Africa. He had been worried because he felt he had arrived at a point “at which many artists lose their minds, or commit suicide, or throw themselves into good works, or try to enter politics.” Cezzar and his wife Gulriz Sururi, both actors, took Baldwin in and gave him the spare room in their apartment where he was able to work on his manuscript free from all distraction. Baldwin’s Another Country would be completed in two months after his arrival, and he would find he was welcomed among Istanbul’s artists.
Baldwin eventually moved out of Cezzar and Sururi’s Taksim apartment into a “red wooden yalı, a waterside mansion, once owned by Ahmed Vefik Paşa, an Ottoman-era intellectual and statesman. He also spent time at another multistoried home on the Bosphorus located near the 15th-century stone fortress Rumeli Hisarı, from which Mehmet the Conqueror launched his attack on the Byzantines,” Suzy Hansenin Public Books magazine.
I can't help but wonder what he would think about today's dictatorial regime of Turkey. A country built on rich, ripe history, being tormented right in front of our eyes. Çok yazık. RIP to Baldwin, his intelligence and moving way with words is keenly looked for during these times
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