Vũ Trọng Phụng
Vietnamese novelist, journalist, and satirist noted for incisive social critiques in works such as Số đỏ (Dumb Luck), Giông tố (Storm), and reportages like Lục Xì and Kỹ nghệ lấy Tây; he died young of tuberculosis.
Books
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1. Dumb Luck
Set in colonial-era Hanoi, this biting picaresque satire follows a streetwise hustler whose lucky breaks and brazen opportunism catapult him into the upper crust. Through a cascade of farcical misunderstandings involving sports fads, beauty contests, medical quackery, and moral reformers, the story skewers the hypocrisies of a society enthralled by status and Westernized “modernity,” revealing how image and accident eclipse merit in a world of performative progress.
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