Lan Khai - Who opened the way to the world of the forest in modern Vietnamese literature
| Author | Tran Manh Tien |
| Position | Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam |
| Pages | 112-118 |
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L
an Khai – Who opened the wa
y
to the world of the forest in modern
Vie
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c. Pr
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f. Tr
a
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Hanoi National
U
niversity o
f
E
ducation, Vietna
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n medieval literature of Vietnam, the nature and people in the mountainous areas were
isolated. But thanks to the new literary movement during the period of 1930-1945, forest story
was born with the names of many famous writers such as Lan Khai, The Lu, Luu Trong Lu,
TChya, Thanh Tinh, Nguyen Tuan, Ly Van Sam...
A
mong these writers, Lan Khai was dubbed
a
s the Greatest Forest Writer. His writings about the nature, customs and mountain people are
v
ery a ractive. He did not only praise the beauty and goodness but also condemned the forest
destroyers, wildlife killers, robbers who ruined human happiness.
A
ll the stories are in bright
a
nd poetic language.
Ke
y
word
s
:
Lan Khai, Forest, story, nature, customs, ethnic, love, language, death, life
.
I
ntr
odu
ct
io
n
For a long time in medieval literature o
f
Vietnam, the images o
f
li
f
e and
p
eo
p
le in
mountainous areas was
bl
urre
d
,
b
ut t
h
an
k
to t
h
e new
l
iterar
y
movement
d
uring t
h
e
p
eriod o
f
1930 -1945
F
orest stor
y
was born, marking a new lea
p
o
f
modern Vietnamese
l
iterature. The stor
y
o
f
the
f
orest is associated with names such as Lan Khai, The
Lu, Luu Trong Lu, TC
hy
a, T
h
an
h
Tin
h
, Ngu
y
en Tuan, L
y
Van Sam, etc. T
h
e
y
h
ave
ex
p
lored the natural world and the li
f
e o
f
ethnic minorities, because the delta
p
eo
p
le
h
ave
l
ong
b
e
l
ieve
d
t
h
at t
h
e mountains are
d
ar
k
an
d
d
angerous
pl
aces. T
h
ese writers
have brought man
y
new
p
aintings o
f
the world o
f
the
f
orest, which were welcomed
by
man
y
readers.
I
n the journe
y
into the world o
f
the "sacred
f
orest", Lan Khai (1906-
1945
)
was
d
u
bb
e
d
“t
h
e F
o
r
es
t Wr
i
t
e
r o
f
New Literature” (Ngu
y
en Vi, H.1994,
p
.88).
Des
p
ite his short li
f
e, he has le
a great literar
y
and artistic legac
y
, including: novels,
s
h
ort stories,
p
oetr
y
;
l
iterar
y
t
h
eor
y
an
d
criticism, researc
h
an
d
trans
l
ation;
l
iterature
c
ollection; as well as
p
ictures but the most t
yp
ical works are the
f
orest stories o
f
Lan
Khai.
A
ll o
f
his legac
y
,
p
roves that he was ver
y
talented because he was not onl
y
a
writer, a
p
oet, a
p
ainter, a translator, a researcher, but also a
f
olklore collector.
2. F
o
r
e
st st
o
r
ie
s
o
f L
a
n Kh
ai
I
n the article
p
ublished in Tao Dan Magazine No. 6 o
f
1939 named
“
To a
y
oung man
w
ho wanted to
p
ursue a career in writin
g
”,
h
e wrote: "
I
grew u
p
in t
h
e mountains so
I
o
en stand alone in
f
ront o
f
nature with thousands o
f
colors and sha
p
es.”
I
t is a
fl
ashback o
f
the "literar
y
karma" o
f
a writer, showing the sensitivit
y
o
f
an artist's
soul to the environment at an earl
y
age.
A
t the same time, his
fl
uenc
y
in French and
l
anguages o
f
man
y
ethnic minorities, together with a dee
p
cultural background, has
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