I knew a wonderful princess in the land of Oo-bla-dee. The longing motif of the youthful rebels Arlecq and Paasch originates from a phonetically altered and playful line from the bebop jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie: the outsiders dream of "decadent" music and Western literature, of a country that is not the GDR of the years 1957/58. Imagination without borders; Arlecchino and Pasquariello. The path to Oobliadooh, the spectacular literary debut of the then 31-year-old Fritz Rudolf Fries, a polyglot who grew up in Spain and a fantastically playful loner in the Leipzig province, did not lead to Bitterfeld in socialist literature, but rather into the linguistic artistry of world literature. The virtuoso novel by Fritz Rudolf Fries naturally did not pass through censorship; it was published through the mediation of Uwe Johnson in Frankfurt am Main.