Final Frontiers

Chapter 13 examines the years between 1960 and Nâzım’s death in 1963. It discusses various personal matters, such as the breakdown of Nâzım’s relationships with Dr. Galina and Münevver Andaç, and his 1960 marriage to Vera Tulyakova. Other sections of this chapter look at Nâzım’s involvement in short-wave radio and TKP-related projects in Leipzig, East Germany. In the early 1960s, Münevver Andaç escaped from Turkey with her children, Süleyman Nuri sought revenge, and Nâzım sank into depression and an obsession with death. With respect to both his writing and his everyday life, Nâzım tied up loose ends and prepared for the end.