Dumb Luck by Vũ Trọng Phụng
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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- Published
- 1936
- Nationality
- Vietnamese
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-300
- Original Language
- Vietnamese
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