Literature in the renovation period

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.

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During Vietnam’s middle ages, its Confucians composed works of prose and poetry primarily for entertainment, interaction or education of ethics, so they never considered the works to be commodities. It was early in the 20th century, when a new view on the occupation of writing as a means to earn living was started with Tan Da (1889-1939), that writers got aware that the works were also goods, which were governed by the market mechanism.

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