Abstract
“The Sea and the Kingfisher” (French: La Mer et le martin-pêcheur) is a special novel written by Bui Ngoc Tan. This work is not only the pride of contemporary Vietnamese literature in general and Hai Phong literature in particular when it won the Henri Queffenlec Award in France in 2012; but also the stamp of the author's journey "resurrection of the dead", after more than 5 years of imprisonment and 20 years of torture of reading and writing.
 Because of his special circumstances, social change is always reflected in Bui Ngoc Tan’s work. “The Sea and the Kingfisher” is the same as a little cosmos, a panoramic discourse reflecting all of the love and sorrow of a generation having to face so many incidents and ideological conflicts.
 Above all of the limited literature, “The Sea and the Kingfisher” is a worthy writing. This is seen as a realistic novel, straight and steady, which exposes a world that is still deep in darkness, beneath the golden and glamorous slogan. There are honest people buried deep in the bottom, crumpled and writhed, silently alive, and silently dead. "Belles-lettres" of Bui Ngoc Tan, is a chord of many "words" that were invoked from thousands and thousands of lives of anonymity in the same era. It is both pristine, bitter, and a sigh of pain, laden with deep thoughts. It's also the crystallization of the love of life and faith, thus the aspiration of social transformation.
 Using the sociocriticism, the writer focuses on researching the relationship between life and the working life of Bui Ngoc Tan through his works. And then, we will reach a deeper understanding of the value of Bui Ngoc Tan's literary heritage, the morality or the self-consciousness of the writer's social role, and the aspirations to improve society by literature that he cherished all life.
Highlights
a special novel written by Bui Ngoc Tan
social change is always reflected in Bui Ngoc Tan's work
a panoramic discourse reflecting all of the love and sorrow of a generation having to face so many incidents
Summary
Biển và Chim bói cá của Bùi Ngọc Tấn: Nhìn từ phê bình xã hội học Nguyễn Thị Thảo Ngân*. Không chỉ bởi vì tác phẩm vinh dự đoạt giải Henri Queffenlec tại Pháp năm 2012, trở thành niềm tự hào của nền văn học đương đại Việt Nam. Hơn hết, Biển và chim bói cá là quyển tiểu thuyết ghi dấu chặng đường "hồi sinh từ cõi chết" của cây bút Bùi Ngọc Tấn, sau hơn 5 năm tù không án và 20 năm quay quắt đau đớn sợ đọc, sợ viết. Lựa chọn tiếp cận tác phẩm bằng phương pháp phê bình xã hội học, chúng tôi muốn tập trung nghiên cứu mối quan hệ đặc biệt giữa đời sống và đời viết của Bùi Ngọc Tấn, được kết tinh thông qua tác phẩm. Đây là bài báo công bố mở được phát hành theo các điều khoản của the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
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