Nguyen Binh Phuong’s Novels - a Typical Case of Vietnamese Novels in the First Decades of the 21st Century

Abstract

Nguyen Binh Phuong is a typical novel writer of Vietnamese literature in the first decades of the 21st century with a creative, unique writing style and rich in dialogue spirit. The paper examines some of Nguyen Binh Phuong’s novels to clarify his creativity and spirit of dialogue through the following contents: (i) the fantasy and unconscious world, (ii) writing about evil and death, (iii) interpretation of war and history. These analysis aim to explain the author’s success as a typical novel writer of Vietnamese literature in the first decades of the 21st century.