The Republic of Uz'upis / Haïlji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ha, Il-chi, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Fulton, Bruce, translator.

Fulton, Ju-Chan, translator.

Series:

Library of Korean literature ; 15.

Library of Korean literature ; 15

Standardized Title:

Ujupʻisŭ Konghwaguk. English

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Vilnius (Lithuania)--Fiction.

Vilnius (Lithuania).

Lithuania--Vilnius.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

149 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2014.

Summary:

Uzupis (meaning "on the other side of the river") is, in reality, a neighborhood in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital city, which took the peculiar step of declaring itself an independent republic in 1997. In this novel however, it is the lost homeland of a middle-aged man named Hal, who lands in Lithuania hoping to bury his father's ashes in the country of his birth - a place he is told does not exist. In this unique and melancholic work author Haïlji, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Jonas the Taxi Driver 9

Chapter 2 The People of Hotel Uzupis 17

Chapter 3 Chez Eigis 26

Chapter 4 Vladimir of the Silver Hair 37

Chapter 5 Nocturnal Encounters 46

Chapter 6 Tomas, Prime Minister of Uzupis 54

Chapter 7 For the Love of Vilma 65

Chapter 8 At Café Mano 75

Chapter 9 Jurgita's Husband 85

Chapter 10 Poets of a Colonized Land 98

Chapter 11 Marija, the Flower Girl 108

Chapter 12 The Swallows in the Drawers 117

Chapter 13 Jurgita of Adutiskis 126

Chapter 14 Down by the Vilnia River 138.

Notes:

Translated from the Korean by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton.

ISBN:

9781628970654

1628970650

OCLC:

883391402