The Republic of Užupis Library of Korean Literature his work in a factory

his work in a factory whose purpose he doesn't quite understand

With his “comedy of intellectual abstraction” (Thomas LeClair)

What happens both in the dramatic present and in the past gets told in present tense

TURKEY: Ersan Üldes

The Republic of Užupis Library of Korean Literature his work in a factoryIn this unique and melancholic work author Halji, while appearing to shun Korea, is in fact examining the yearnings and dislocation of his contemporary Koreans, and posits the idea that freedom and nationhood themselves may be just a dream. Uupis (meaning on the other side of the river) is, in reality, a neighborhood in Vilnius, Lithuanias capital city, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel,