The change of scenery and hospitality of his new circle of Turkish friends turned out to be medicine for James’ soul. His decade of laboring over it took him to Paris, then later to the South of France, and now that he was in Turkey, his work was brought to a standstill. James was depressed, broke and burnt out from a severe case of writer’s block from his desperate attempts to finish Another Country, a novel he had started working on in 1948 in Greenwich Village, New York City. Yet, this is exactly what he did when he appeared in Istanbul in 1961 at the doorstep of Engin Cezzar, an old friend and collaborator from his days at The Actors Studio (New York City), in the midst of a party Cezzar was throwing. Oral tradition has it that the author James Baldwin had privately confessed he did not want to bring his as yet unfinished novel, Another Country to yet “another country” to be completed, having already fled New York to Paris.
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