Thesis information "The magical realism trend in Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels" by HVCH Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen, majoring in Vietnamese Literature.1. Full name of student: Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of birth: August 22, 1974 4. Place of birth: Ha Tay 5. Decision to recognize student No.: 1528/QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH October 14, 2009 by the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 6. Changes in the training process: None 7. Thesis topic: Magical realism trend in Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels 8. Major: Vietnamese Literature; Code: 60 22 34 9. Scientific supervisor: Dr. Pham Xuan Thach, Lecturer of Art Studies, Faculty of Literature, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 10. Summary of the results of the thesis: The thesis has generally studied the magical realism trend in Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels in terms of: practical and theoretical basis, the way the work is organized, the system of characters and the realistic issues conveyed through the system of images of the work. Chapter 1: Practical and theoretical basis of the thesis The thesis focuses on summarizing the changes of Vietnamese novels after 1986, the emergence of the magical realism trend in world and Vietnamese literature, along with introducing the creative journey of Nguyen Binh Phuong - a writer with typical works in the magical realism trend and making important contributions to this trend. Chapter 2: Magical realism in the organization of Nguyen Binh Phuong's works Magical realism in Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels has created a unique space-time architecture for each work from the interweaving and blending without distinction between the two elements of reality and fantasy, thereby opening up many dimensions of exploring reality through the space-time structures of the underworld and the living world, the unconscious and the conscious, the psychological and the spiritual. In addition, the magical realism also dominates the construction of the novel's structure to create "a multi-layered arrangement" (Pham Xuan Thach) from the creation of the work's structure. The structure of Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels has two outstanding characteristics: multi-linearity and disintegration. Chapter 3. Magical realism in the construction of Nguyen Binh Phuong's novel characters In Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels, the magical realism dominates the artistic features of character construction with three basic forms: illusory characters, abnormal characters, and absent characters. This character system is both magical and illusory, and historical - specifically because of the context of the work and the realistic messages conveyed behind the images. There, people find the pressing issues of contemporary life, with three issues at the forefront: degeneration, violence and loss of trust. With a clear awareness of using magical realism in literary composition, Nguyen Binh Phuong has contributed significantly to the process of innovation in contemporary Vietnamese novels. Our thesis hopes to contribute a voice to enrich the research on Nguyen Binh Phuong, thereby affirming and recognizing his efforts to explore and create in his novels and also to express our respect for the writer's arduous and serious artistic labor. 11. Practical applicability: none 12. Further research directions: none 13. Published works related to the thesis: none
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name : NGUYEN THI THU HUYEN 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: August 22, 1974 4. Place of birth: Ha Tay 5. Admission decision number: Student recognition decision: No 1528 / QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH, signed on October 14th, 2009 by the principle of Social Sciences and Humanities University, Ha Noi National University. 6. Changes in academic process: No 7. Official thesis title: The trend of magic realism in Nguyen Binh Phuong's novel. 8. Major: Vietnamese literature. 9. Code: 66.22.34 10. Supervisors: Dr. Pham Xuan Thach, Artistic Subject, Literature Department, Social Sciences and Humanities University, Hanoi National University. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: Based on aspects such as: basis of fact and theory, organization of work, system of characters and realistic problems transferred through system of images, our thesis researched magic realism trend in Nguyen Binh Phuong novel essentially. Chapter 1: The fact and theoretical basis of the thesis. Our thesis concentrates on issues below: changes in Vietnamese after 1986, appearance of magic realism trend in literature in the world and in Vietnam, moreover, introduction of composing journey of Nguyen Binh Phuong whose works are typical for magic realism trend and have important contribution to this trend. Chapter 2: Writing style of magic realism in organization of Nguyen Binh Phuong's works. Writing style of magic realism in Nguyen Binh Phuong's novels made a unique kind of contruction of space and time in every novel from the undistinguished mixture between fact and magic. And then, the multiple fact discovery opened through contruction of space – time, yin – yang, unconsciousness – consciousness, psychology – spiritual... Besides, magic realism style affected to novels structure with “a multistage coordination” (Pham Xuan Thach) from the creation of novels structure. The structure of NguyenBinh Phuong's novel has two features, they are multithreading and decomposition. Chapter 3: Magic realism style in character construction in Nguyen Binh Phuong novels. In Nguyen Binh Phuong novels, magic realism style affects the art of character construction by three basic forms: magic character, unusual character and absent character. This character system brings both magical feature and particular historic feature, because of work context and realistic messages tranfered beside images. People find out bad problems in the contemporary life, first of all, alienation, violence and lost belief. Nguyen Binh Phuong was aware of using magic realism style in composing clearly. Thanks to this, he had a great contribution in innovation process of Vietnamese contemporary novel. We hope our thesis will enrich researches about Nguyen Binh Phuong, then confirm his efforts in exploring creation for his novels, and express our respectation to his serious artistic labor. 12. Practical applicability, if any: N/A
