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Gürsel Korat, who is one of the writers of the Republican period, has eight novels published so far (he also has two more novels written with Levent Cantek), two story books, six children’s books, four review books, two essay books, two theater plays and a script. Uyku Ülkesi, the author’s last novel, differs from other novels with its dystopian fiction. Uyku Ülkesi is a novel consisting of fourteen dreams that Doctor Sevda Kül called “dream book” because of the brain hemorrhage she had undergone surgery and subsequently lost her ability to speak and which she wrote to her daughter Nihal. In the novel, dystopia is primarily given on the axis of environmental problems due to the deterioration of the ecological balance; to which is the criticism of the use of violence as a tool of oppression by the government is added. In the novel, the first way the rulership uses to legitimize itself is violence, the second way is the control/denunciation mechanism. By watching people’s dreams on monitors, thoughts and behaviors that the government does not like or do not want are tried to be prevented. The third way that the government uses to legitimize itself is to standardize people and damage people’s sense of justice. All these dystopias (violence, control/denunciation, standardization and justice) are actually a reference to the restriction of people’s fundamental rights and freedoms. Although a dystopia of repression is seen in two places on the surface in the novel, in fact, it is emphasized throughout the novel that people’s freedoms are restricted by all these actions. Other dystopias emphasized in the novel are capitalism and media dystopias. With the dystopia of capitalism, people are left under difficult working conditions and in a way, their freedom of life is taken away from them; With the press-broadcast dystopia, people are deprived of their freedom to receive news, access the right information, or listen/read whatever they want. From these perspectives, it is seen that all the problems discussed in the novel are related to each other.