People and flowers passionately in love

I cannot be more different when talking about Nguyen Thi Minh Thai, with two words "passionate, passionate". Even though someone who first meets her is easily "terrified" by her rapid, strong, straightforward way of speaking, and sometimes even "allergic" if not used to it. But just reading the pages she writes, no matter what she writes, the reader will feel the overwhelming outpouring of emotions that cannot be contained, must find a way to write, and write it by any means, regardless of genre or style. And no matter how she writes, it is very passionate. Even her way of speaking is the same. Once you get used to it, you will feel that person must speak like that. Speaking – not only with language, words – but also with tone, gestures, intonation, facial expressions, eyes, hands… That means whatever Minh Thai is passionate about, likes, or is passionate about, she wants to pass on all of that, and more than that, to make it boil, burn, and all of that from her burns to spread to others, those who listen and converse with her, with her.

Therefore, she chose literature and theater as the place to display what she understands and feels through each word and each layer of drama to deeply understand life and the human nature of people. It seems that even if she writes more and more about writers, poets, playwrights, and more broadly, those who are blessed with the artistic lineage, who are passionate about beauty and create beauty, her pen will never run out of material and emotions, ideas and feelings, colors and tones. So, after the books she has written quite thickly and deeply about the lives of professionals, Minh Thai has released two new books about the lives of talented people in the human world - whose laughter and tears have never been able to make people cold and indifferent.

Her most recent book is called “Finding Flowers”. Strange! When we used to hear the saying “Because of flowers, one must find flowers”, we often imagined that the person who goes out of his way to find flowers must be a man, and the person being searched for must be a woman, a flower, a member of the fair sex. Now, of course, the person being searched for is still a beautiful person, but the beauty here has transcended gender, becoming artistic beauty. The person searching for flowers here is looking for a soul mate, a desire to talk, analyze, and comment with/with/the people who create beauty in literary and artistic works. In fact, the person searching is Nguyen Thi Minh Thai, a researcher, literary and theater critic, a doctor of art studies, an associate professor of philology, and later a cultural researcher. And the people who were searched for, the “flowers” ​​that were admired, were Che Lan Vien, Van Cao, Hoang Cam, The Lu, Nguyen Dinh Thi, Nguyen Dinh Nghi, Luu Quang Vu, Xuan Trinh, Xuan Quynh, Trinh Cong Son, Le Dung, Hoang Ngoc Hien, Ho Anh Thai…, the Vietnamese ao dai, the Vietnamese oil lamp, the peach-colored yem, the Vietnamese quilted cotton shirt… Oh my, walking along this path of searching for flowers with Minh Thai, I saw the countless hardships of the thorny path of art, of the multifaceted fate of art, of the noble value of art, which, with the ups and downs of life and the ups and downs of time, might only remain in the memories of contemporaries, or only remain on faded pages that are difficult to preserve. Perhaps, that is why Minh Thai is willing to be a companion, an art archaeologist, a person who is passionate enough to cross the threshold like Thuy Kieu "walking alone through the late night garden" to reach her common lover, to first satisfy her desire for love, and then to help the creator not feel lonely when creating, and to feel warm when having someone to accompany him. Usually, the audience only knows about the work, only based on the achievements that the artist has presented to the public. But readers/viewers/listeners are also usually curious about the artist, about the secrets behind the work. Minh Thai has accepted and voluntarily taken the path to find the back, the deep, the hidden side of the creative consciousness, and even in the daily life of the artist, to shine a different and new light for readers/viewers/listeners to understand more about their work. Minh Thai herself, when enjoying authors and literary works in her own way, with a reading/watching/listening mindset, with her own unique feelings, has often surprised and delighted both creators and audiences.

Nguyen Thi Minh Thai has set out to find flowers to see the faces of people and flowers, and not only to see but also to know, not only to know but also to understand, not only to understand but also to love, not only to love but also to regret, and not only to regret but also to worry and have many thoughts… about flowers and people. The following book follows the previous one, the book that readers are holding in their hands is the author taking steps to urge and urge readers. Passionate and passionate to the point of aching and worrying, that is Nguyen Thi Minh Thai’s true love for art and artists. Therefore, she has devoted all her energy to introducing, to make more beautiful, to “hang high the price of jade” the beautiful aspects of literature, art, and spiritual culture, so that viewers can know, love, cherish, and respect the artist.

“Human Face, Flower Face”, following “Finding Flowers on the Road”, continues to develop a new approach by cultural and artistic researcher Nguyen Thi Minh Thai, who is sincere and diligent in discovering the beauty of spiritual values ​​from the side of those who create that beauty, and interestingly, from the side of those who enjoy it. Reading this new book by Nguyen Thi Minh Thai, readers will have interesting discoveries about the artist’s soul, about the simple things in everyday life that seem to be hidden, if not discovered and distilled by someone with “green eyes”.

The writer did not hesitate to “find the way to find the flowers”. Not only that, the writer also revealed the “human face and flower face” for readers to admire and love. So readers should not spare time but try to follow the writer to find the sweet and fragrant flowers that have been offered to life, and the writer herself now seems to be the sweet and fragrant flowers for life, through her own writing, when she took the trouble to search for and reveal the beauty of the work of art. The passionate charm of Nguyen Thi Minh Thai’s words, therefore, also comes from the love of beauty, first of all in literature and art, then the desire to attract readers/viewers/listeners directly to the work. And when you have seen and known the human faces and flower faces appearing under the writer’s passionate, passionate, and ardent pen, readers will again see the beautiful figure of a person hidden behind the pages of the book. Do you recognize someone? There seems to be a person’s shadow under the flowers… If you recognize, you will surely be delighted. If you don't realize it, you may regret it... accidentally.