Kaldırımlar Kurdunun Hayatı 5

Book in six parts by Masist Gül. Gül (1947–2003) was a multi-faceted artist of Armenian origin, who was born and lived in Istanbul. He made his living in cinema, working as an extra in more than 300 films. He made collages, drawings and copper gravures, wrote poetry, painted portraits and drew graphic novels. None of this was published or exhibited during his lifetime and very few people saw any of his work. During the eighties he conceived and made by hand a series of six books entitled Kaldırım Destanı – Kaldırımlar Kurdunun Hayatı (Pavement Myth – The Life of the Pavement's Wolf), using a periodical comic book format. These, we reproduced and published as facsimiles of the originals.

Book 5: The house burns to the ground. Homeless and hungry, the boy wanders through the night, and falls asleep by a building. The morning shows the building to be a butcher's shop. The butcher is angry to find a smelly outcast asleep by his shop and they fight. Policemen take the boy to court.
The judge, though sympathetic, feels obliged to send him to prison for 3 years. The boy is ecstatic. At last! Food, shelter and a safe place to stay.
After 3 years he is dragged unwillingly from the cell. He proceeds to make a general nuisance of himself, hoping to get locked up again. But in the end he goes too far, nearly getting himself killed and once more he is on the run.
Hiding away from his enemies, he is desperately lonely and hopeless.