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Friday, May 20, 2022










BANH MI CAY THI NO on 5-14-22--Vung Tau copy








BANH MI CAY THI NO on 5-14-22--Vung Tau (detail) copy






Again, Thị Nở. Encountering her in Krong Buk on 3/22/19, I wrote:
I was rather surprised to see these figures in the miniature landscape behind Tĩnh Quang Buddhist Temple. They're Chí Phèo and Thị Nở, two physically repulsive, destitute and outcast characters from Nam Cao's 1941 short story. Their brief love affair is one of the most poignant and well known in Vietnamese fiction. You know you've written a classic when even illiterates know your characters. Of course, many people only know Chí Phèo and Thị Nở from a film version of the story.



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