Nikos suddenly said, “You know, I remember when we were young, and Surrealism was all the rage, Elytis and I, (Elytis is another Greek poet), there was a game we used to play. Shall we play it?” The result became Levi's poem: Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon. Haldeman is remembered by many as a warm and passionate man interacting with, and often supporting, (despite his often precarious financial situation as a full-time writer) writers and artists and the many travellers he met at that crossroads that both mainland Athens and Hania, Crete, were at that time, for people searching for an answer to some of the world's dilemmas. Following his death, Levi went on to write a long and passionate lament: for Charles Haldeman, (published in Agenda, Vol. 22, Nos. 3-4, 1985) remembering their time together on the seafront in Hania: There was one café on the empty quay, it could consume poetry in handfuls never distracted from the stone quayside. High overhead under the blazing sun a snowy mountain rippled like a flag. In the morning wrote letters for the whores to their true loves serving in Sicily, with eyes of blue, far clearer than the sea. Haldeman provided the lyrics for Manos Hatzidakis' title song for the 1962 film, It Happened in Athens. His screenplay for the film Nicholas was accepted by 20th Century Fox, but production was cancelled after the 1967 "Colonels' coup". He also wrote scripts for a number of British, Greek, and Canadian documentaries. From 1972 to 1974, he served as the editor for International History Magazine. At the time of his death, he and director Christopher Miles were attempting to sell the rights to a film play, The Cretan Runner, based on George Psychoundakis' memoir of the same name. He died in Athens, Greece in 1983. Works Haldeman's first novel, The Sun's Attendant, was published in England in 1963 and in the US in 1964. Its protagonist, Stefan Brückmann, is a half-German, half-Gypsy boy survives Auschwitz and attends the University of Heidelberg as a young man. He becomes involved with a variety of intellectuals and expatriates and is eventually forced to confront his memories and experiences during the war. It was praised by Lawrence Durrell, who had befriended Haldeman in Greece, and George Steiner, who called it "a profoundly original novel." William Gibson's 1964 review for the Saturday Review also concluded his view