Nhất Linh

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Nhất Linh ( Hán tự : 一 靈, "a ghost") (born Nguyễn Tường Tam , 阮 祥 三; born July 25, 1906 in Cẩm Giàng , Hải Dương ; † July 7, 1963 in Saigon ) was a Vietnamese writer and politician.

Life

He studied physics and chemistry in France from 1927 to 1930 and then returned to Vietnam. There he was co-founder and leading figure of the literary movement Tự Lực Văn Đoàn in 1933 , which propagated a clear, simple Quốc-ngữ language without Chinese loanwords and borrowings and brought about a modernization in the literature of Vietnam. The two magazines Phong Hóa and Ngày Na , published by Nhất Linh, acted as platforms for the movement that dominated the literary scene in Vietnam throughout the 1930s.

From 1939 he was politically active as a nationalist. He founded the Đại Việt Dân Chính Đảng (Democratic Party of Vietnam) and later was General Secretary of the Việt Nam Quốc dân Đảng (VNQDD, Vietnamese Nationalist Party), in opposition to the French colonial power, the Communists and finally the South Vietnamese government under Ngô Đình Diệm stood. From 1942 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1951 he was in exile in Hong Kong and Shanghai . In 1946 he was briefly foreign minister under Ha Chi Minh .

When he was about to appear before a trial in the context of the military coup in South Vietnam in 1960 , he killed himself by ingesting cyanide to avoid conviction. In his farewell letter he remembered the monk Thích Quảng Đức , who had recently burned himself to death in protest against the Buddhist persecution of Diêms, and wrote: "I also take life as a warning to those who trample on all freedoms".

Two of his brothers, Hoàng Đạo (1906–1948) and Thạch Lam (1909–1942), were also literary active within the Tự Lực Văn Đoàn.

Works

  • Nho phong . Short stories. 1924.
  • Người quay tơ . Short stories. 1926.
  • Anh phải sống . Short stories. 1932–1933, together with Khái Hưng .
  • Đời mưa gió . Novel. 1933, together with Khái Hưng.
  • Gánh hàng hoa . Novel. 1934, together with Khái Hưng.
  • Nắng thu . Novel. 1934.
  • Đoạn tuyệt . Novel. 1934-1935.
  • Đi Tây . Travelogues. 1935.
  • Hai buổi chiều vàng . Short stories. 1934-1937.
  • Thế rồi một buổi chiều . Short stories. 1934-1937.
  • Lạnh lùng . Novel. 1935-1936.
  • Đôi bạn . Novel. 1936-1937.
  • Bướm trắng . Novel. 1938-1939.
  • Xóm cầu mới . Roman (unfinished). 1949-1957.
  • Viết và đọc tiểu thuyết . Essays. 1952-1961.
  • Giòng sông Thanh Thủy . Roman trilogy ( Ba người bộ hành , Chi bộ hai người and Vọng quốc ). 1960-1961.
  • Thương chồng . Short stories. 1961.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Spencer C. Tucker: The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History , p. 837.
  2. ^ Mark W. McLeod, Thi Dieu Nguyen: Culture and Customs of Vietnam , p. 79.
  3. ↑ Ellen J. Hammer: A Death in November. New York City, New York: EP Dutton 1987, ISBN 0-525-24210-4 , pp. 154 f.
personal data
SURNAME Nhất Linh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nguyễn Tường Tam (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Cẩm Giàng , Hải Dương
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1963
Place of death Saigon