Some features of the “educated – uneducated” opposition in stories by Nguyen Huy Thiep

Abstract

A specific artistic feature of stories by Ngueyn Huy Thiep (19502021) is the opposition town village, which often attaches to the opposition educated uneducated, or intellectuals common people. However, the opposition of educated people and uneducated one has a number of peculiarities. Thus, in the stories of the present time we find the opposition intellectuals common people, but in historical stories uneducated common people are opposed by Confucians (nh nho), representatives of educated class typical of traditional Vietnam. At the same time, in a number of stories the educated uneducated opposition has been transformed into the public person (con người x hội) natural person (con người tự nhin) opposition. Once again this confirms the conclusion that hostility to educated people is one of obvious ideological dominants being the conceptual base of the writers work.