His addiction has had a huge impact on his life. That was particularly dangerous in that period, because there were groups of people keeping an eye on the streets whose sole purpose was to find vagrants and put them into “temporary arrest cells”. He had various relationships with other women besides Tula, one of them was Aurelita.Įven before meeting Tula for the first time, he was homeless and wandered around the city looking for a place to sleep. He mentions various of his relatives and revives many episodes from the time of the Second World War and the 1950s, for example. Tula did not always live there, but she persistently makes up an appearance in his reminiscences anyway. There he has known destitution and failure. He recalls various moments from his life, particularly those connected with his deprived neighbourhood in Vilnius, frequently in a stream-of-consciousness style and, at first, in no specific chronological order. Nevertheless, she is the reason behind some of his actions and is constantly in his thoughts, while he pictures a life of poverty and homelessness. The unnamed narrator confirms early on that Tula is dead. Taking place predominantly in Lithuania during the Soviet occupation, it is the story of a man struggling with an alcohol addiction and his love for Tula, whom he had an intense but short-lived relationship with.
Tula by Jurgis Kuncinas is closer to be a fictional memoir than a clearly plotted novel.
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