tailieunhanh - Assessment of Nguyen Huy Thiep’s works on historical topics

As a challenge and a “trial” in the sphere of thoughts and art, it is not easy to make a general assessment of Nguyen Huy Thiep’s works on historical issues due to many different viewpoints and explanations. However, we cannot omit his works, when discussing the “literary and artistic creations on historical topics” in the đổi mới, or renovation, period. | Assessment of Nguyen Huy Thiep s Works on Historical Topics Nguyen Huu Son1 1 Institute of Literature Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Email lavson59@ Received on 11 February 2019. Revised on 25 February 2019. Accepted on 8 March 2019. Abstract As a challenge and a trial in the sphere of thoughts and art it is not easy to make a general assessment of Nguyen Huy Thiep s works on historical issues due to many different viewpoints and explanations. However we cannot omit his works when discussing the literary and artistic creations on historical topics in the đổi mới or renovation period. Basically Nguyen Huy Thiep s works on historical topics share many similarities with the general artistic conception in the first half of the 20th century. At the same time his outlook was improved renovated and modernised. His literary works focus on exploring and reflecting the people s life the nation s destiny and burning issues of the day. They have been highly appreciated by readers republished many times and translated into many languages. Keywords Nguyen Huy Thiep historical topic literature in the renovation period. Subject classification Literature 1. Introduction Carrying out an in-depth survey of the works on historical topics we can realise remarkable transitional stages cultural exchange and literary development. First of all the works written in the context of the wars 1945-1975 are often subtitled stories of famous people historical celebrities historical stories historical memoirs eternal exemplars homeland celebrities or national stars etc. Those works mainly narrate famous figures as central characters describing their lives and achievements together with historical events as the story plot without wild fiction or exaggeration. The authors of those works were mainly cultural and historical researchers or teachers who had thorough knowledge of famous people for instance Ha An Quynh Cu Nguyen Duc Hien Nguyen Hong Vu Ngoc Khanh Nguyen Loc Bui Van Nguyen .