Top 10 best analytical essay on Nam Cao’s “Leadership”

If we mention the excellent realist writers of Vietnamese literature besides names like Ngo Tat To, Nguyen Cong Hoan, Vu Trong Phung… then Nam Cao is the name that many of us think of. His works have left many impressions and thoughts in the hearts of readers. Especially the works before the August revolution. In addition to the works on the topic of farmers, Nam Cao was also very successful with the topic of intellectuals, which is typical for this topic is the work of Thua Thien Hue.

Let’s first learn about the title of this work. As we all know, the work is like a brainchild of each writer and poet. That’s why naming them is so important. It not only brings the reader’s attention but also the writer’s artistic intention to express the idea of ​​the content of the work. In this work, too, the reason the writer takes the title of the work is the extra life to show the deadlocked life of the intellectuals in the previous society. If the dead peasant was corrupted by the thugs, the intellectual also fell into a deadlock with the tragedies of literature, art and love.

That society does not create conditions for intellectuals as well as their literary works to develop because of trying to earn money. In life, people only have excess clothes, excess rice bowls. But here the character Ho is redundant. It can be said that he finds himself redundant to be tasteless, meaningless in front of life, redundant with relatives and redundant with himself. At the same time, through this work, we will see the literary conceptions of realist writer Nam Cao.

The life of Ho’s character is analyzed based on two great tragedies. it was the writer’s artistic tragedy and his love for his family. First of all, the artistic tragedy, Ho’s point of view before he met Tu, that was the time when his ambition was still great. For an artist like him, hunger and cold mean nothing to a young man passionate about ideals. His heart is beautiful and his soul is pure. Not only that, he had a big ambition in his head that was “I’ve only written one work in my life, but that work will overshadow all the works released at the same time, that work must be awarded the Nobel Prize and must be translated into all languages ​​around the world”.

Through the thoughts of that knowledgeable person, we see a person who is so passionate about art that he forgets about trivial things like food and clothes. He is always self-conscious about his profession, we see that this is a true artist. A few of Ho’s conceptions of composition are “Literature does not need, but skillful craftsmen follow a few pre-existing patterns, but literature only tolerates artists who know how to bring out what no one else has created and created yet. creating what is not yet” or “Negligentness in any profession is dishonest, but negligence in literature is despicable”. Through this, we can confirm that Ho is a talented writer with a good personality and a beautiful concept.

When grafting his life into Tu’s life, the artistic tragedy began to happen to this artist. Now, the household is no longer alone. The household has a whole family to take care of with the busy burdens. The wife is hungry and the children are sore tomorrow, each child has a lot of pain, and is harassed all day. Households have to earn money to support their family by writing and writing a lot. That’s why he couldn’t wait to write a work his whole life. There were articles he read and then forgot, but because of his family, he had to go against the concept with his professional conscience. He suffered but knew what to do when the whole family depended on his meager salary. I feel ashamed every time I re-read my own writing. He cursed himself as a despicable, wretched, and dishonest man. House was disillusioned and fell into tragedy.

Thus, we see that Ho’s tragedy is not a personal tragedy but the tragedy of society at that time. There, human values, life and talents become meaningless. Ho’s tragedy is the contradiction between circuTaxances and human dignity. Not only suffered the tragedy of an artist not being able to develop her talent, but Ho also suffered the tragedy of love.

Before the tragedy, Ho considered love as the first criterion to determine human personality, the strong was the one who knew how to help others. Tu was a girl abandoned by her lover, that lover not only brought her suffering, but he left her son, but gave birth to his own flesh and blood, mercilessly not responsible for Tu’s life. Then Tu became pregnant with that child, the old mother was blind, and then it was Ho who bent down to save Tu’s life. He accepted to raise his elderly mother and father the child in Tu’s womb. which shows that Ho is a writer rich in love and compassion. And it was because of love that Ho accepted to give up his great ambition to earn money to support his family. Households accept to write works that look like “disturbing lake” and accept being a despicable person in order to have money to support their family. However, deep down he was still tormented by his ambition.

But when he realized that he was just a dishonest person, a despicable person, Ho then trampled on the love he built and his life perspective. He started to get depressed and started to drink alcohol. He beat his wife and children and became an abusive husband. However, he always lived a miserable life because he could not forget art. In House, there are two people who torment each other: One is a person of literature and art, the other is a person of everyday life, a hope, a melancholy pain. I thought that finding alcohol would alleviate the pain, but who would have thought that it was the ghost of men that would increase the suffering in Ho’s heart. It turns Ho into a brute and plunges into tragedy again. Every time he wakes up, he realizes his own tragedy more and more, he regrets the rough treatment of his loved ones, he curses at himself and considers himself an asshole.

Thus, here we see a great tragedy of contemporary intellectuals. Anh Ho is one of the typical lives of knowledgeable people. Knowing that that great ambition is always in the heart, but in that society, it only hurts the person who is dreaming of it. Once again the real value is shown here

The short story Extraordinary Life was written in 1943. It can be seen that Surpassed Life, thematically, directly contributed to the preparation of the writer’s novel Long Life, which was completed the following year, in 1944. It is no coincidence that both The works are autobiographical in nature and the titles both reveal a close creative mood and thought.

Surplus life writes about the life of a poor intellectual, a writer. Ho is an honest person who loves his wife and children, is very responsible for his family, is a writer who has the right mindset, is serious about his career, has the ambition to build a real work. value “will obscure all works at the same time”, even be awarded a Nobel Prize. But in reality, Hou had to endure many sad and humiliating scenes in life. The household has to work hard but still can’t earn enough money to support the family, running for medical treatment for a bunch of crippled, sick children. As a man, husband, and father with a self-respecting spirit, Ho was very distressed by the poverty situation, especially seeing Tu, his wife, the woman who had suffered a lot with her ex-lover. , came to me full of grace, but had to endure, err, and work so hard. Confused, heartbroken because of family matters.

Households rarely can sit and write peacefully, accomplishing the things they like and want. And despite the motives and good intentions, Ho had to write sloppy, slanderous, in order to make money, creating products that every time he reads “he blushes, frowns, grinds his teeth, crumples. broke the book and scolded me like an asshole.” The torments in the family because of poverty, because of the sight of his wife and children, the dissatisfaction and shame in writing that Ho so earnestly and so much hope, increasingly turn him into a dirty person. , rude, needless. Household scolded wife and children, drunk constantly. But every time she wakes up, she becomes sad, regretful, loves her wife and children more and blames herself.

Through Nam Cao’s work, we see good people, people with ambitious dreams, honest and hardworking workers, why are they so miserable, both physically and mentally! In such circuTaxances, people like Tu can only endure, be patient, and understand and love their husbands even more. But as Ho is a writer, the more Ho finds his living situation really heavy, with no way out, a real tragedy. Household sometimes said out loud that his wife and children hurt him, but in his heart he knew that was not the case. Not knowing who to blame, he blamed himself, scolded himself, gnawing at his grievances and suffering alone.

The main character in the work is the writer. Therefore, in the work, through the life and especially the thoughts of the character Nam Cao, he directly addressed an issue that he often cared about, which was the issue of artistic creation, conception and requirements. his literature. Household is very passionate about literature. Literary creation is the aspiration and ideal of Ho’s life. At first, Ho despised the mundane worries about material things, putting all his heart into cultivating his talent that grew more and more each day. Households read, think, explore, comment and think without getting bored. Households know that going into the literary profession will be poor and miserable, but they accept. Literature also brings Hou incomparable joy. Every time Ho confided in his wife, he read a good passage:

« … Hey, Tu… Think about it, my life is not worth it, but it turns into suffering, I made my body suffer, I was so addicted to literature that I suffered. However, although it is really hard, if there is a rich person willing to exchange for my position, I am not sure I have changed it. I think: when I read a passage like this, but understand all the good things, no matter how delicious a dish is, I don’t like it. Very happy! Why is there such a talented person in the world?”

According to Ho, a work of real value, the work Ho hopes to write in his entire literary life, cannot only have local value, not only describes the appearance of society, but “must overcome transcending all boundaries and limitations, must be a work common to all mankind. It must contain something big, powerful, both painful and exhilarating. It celebrates mercy, charity, and justice. It makes people closer to people.” Surely that was also Nam Cao’s wish, request for a good work, about literature. Literature is not only a profession but also a karma, a bond, an intrinsic need in literature, in terms of creation as well as enjoyment, pain but also joy, happiness, and voluntariness. each one. Literature is the field of talent, of inter-talent. The noble effect of literature is to humanize society and life, making people sympathize with each other and close to each other.

Nam Cao severely criticizes the disease of sloppiness in literature, considering sloppy writers to be rogues. He wrote: “It is dishonorable in any profession. But literary sloppiness is despicable.” Nam Cao also affirms very clearly that writing and making art is about discovery and creativity: constantly, giving readers something strange, something new, something unique, which is this. Only talent and diligence can do it. Nam Cao wrote: “Literature does not need skilled craftsmen, following a few models given to them. Literature only tolerates those who know how to dig deep, explore, unearth sources that have not yet been discovered and create what has not yet been created”!

That is a very accurate concept, a very high requirement for literature. Writers and artists, of course, must know how to “practice”, must be knowledgeable about techniques, must be “skillful” to a certain extent, especially in certain arts, such as sculpture, musical performance etc… But writers, artists, by the nature of their activities, are not workers, even skilled craftsmen, who follow the available models, according to the “orders” of the people. other. Literature and art is a spiritual activity, the “inner urge” is an irresistible emotion and thought of an artist who puts it into words, music, and pictures… Only “intense” literature , if you can’t write it down, you can’t move other people’s souls, it’s valuable.

Moreover, in the field of literature, it is not enough to be real and sincere, but also to be profound and new, to “unleash sources that have not yet been opened and create things that have not yet existed”. Without depth, without discovering and creating new things, without a new perspective, without a new voice, it is impossible to have a real foothold in the art world. According to Nam Cao, those who hold pencils can write things that are tasteless, bland, evoke shallow emotions, “act out some very common ideas diluted in a flat and too easy writing”, do not bring little novelty to literature, are useless people, superfluous people.

In the work, Nam Cao used the concepts of redundant people and redundant life in a definite sense. Excess is not useful, unnecessary for people and society. Only honest people, who have the right thoughts and have requirements about human values ​​in life, about true creativity, know what is superfluous, dare to accept and feel sorry for their love. its excess. Surplus people, redundant life is an awareness, a cry about the tastelessness, deadlock in life. This topic Nam Cao has raised in one form or another in many of his short stories, especially later exploited in a broader and deeper way in the novel Living Away.

Nam Cao’s characters, especially intellectual ones, are often very introverted. In order to present the inner life of the character, sometimes the author directly uses the method of psychological description, but often allows the character to reveal, talk to himself, “inner monologue”. In The Extraordinary Life, Nam Cao also combines two methods: describing the character’s actions and gestures, relationships, and the character’s words, and at the same time letting the character reveal and talk to himself (uniquely). internal phone). That is why the work has many lyrical properties, many paragraphs really move the reader, because of his sincere thoughts, because of the pain of the character and the author himself. In the depths of the Extraordinary Life, there is a poetry from the longing for beauty, the longing for a life in which people know how to love each other and can live worthy and meaningful lives. Nam Cao often talked about Tsekhov, hoping to write like Tsekhov. In Nam Cao, there is also poetry, lyricism, sadness, and pitying love for people like in Tsekhov. And, like Tsekhop Nam Cao deeply feels the meaning and tragedy of life in the seemingly small, meaningless thoughts around him every day.

The scenes of frustration and heartbreak in the family that Ho and Tu went through, the proud confidence and boredom, the noble and trivial thoughts that always entangled Ho’s mind while holding the pen. ordinary story, nothing worth talking about, but through Nam Cao’s talent and soul, it has become the pain and tragedy of people, of life, the pain and tragedy of superfluous people, of extra life. Nam Cao’s works always make people pay more attention, look deeper into the ordinary, everyday things around and in themselves, live more consciously, be more compassionate, pull people out of the situation. petty, ludicrous, cruel, self-indulgently self-satisfied, that is, making people “unsettled” as one famous writer has said about the function of literature.

Surplus life has a very natural texture. In fact, this is a kind of story without a plot. Almost nothing happened. The writer talked about Tu’s unfortunate past, the process of Ho and Tu getting to know each other and becoming husband and wife, about a meeting between Ho and his fellow writers, but focusing mainly on his thoughts and feelings. Ho’s heartache for not being able to fulfill his life’s earnest desire to write and complete works of real value as he wished and believed he could do. Instead of devoting all her energy to literature, devoting herself to a noble cause, choosing all her best, Ho was busy making a living, always disturbed by family scenes. children, needy, so that people also become vulgar, lowly, the original dream also fades away. House’s mood is torn on the one hand by the desire to be creative, to reach the heights in literature and, on the other hand, by the pragmatic and urgent demands of a hard and deprived family life on a daily basis. The uniqueness and depth of the work lies in the tension in Ho’s mood, in the quality of the main character’s thoughts, which speak for the author about life and literary creation.

It can be said that the character in Waiting is a character – mood. The poetic and lyrical qualities are found throughout the work. The depth and novelty of the subject, the quality of thought, the poetic and the lyrical qualities have created a special attraction for The Legacy, as well as for many other works of Nam Cao which are structured in a very natural way. However, allowing readers to return many times to his short stories, stopping on each idea, each sentence he wrote.

Surplus life ‘is an excellent short story by Nam Cao written about a poor petty bourgeois intellectual before the revolution. Work. Not only successful in terms of content but especially successful in terms of art, especially the art of depicting character psychology. The unique feature of Nam Cao when he builds the character’s personality is that the writer lets himself relax in situations that reveal intense and profound inner conflicts, Ho – the main character of Extraordinary Life – is also constructed in the same manner. Among the details that create Ho’s personality, the detail about Ho’s tears is the one with the most profound meaning. This is the most ‘expensive’ detail in the work, showing the writer’s flair and forte in finding and uncovering hidden corners of the human heart.

The redundant life mainly focuses on the spiritual tragedy of writer Ho: it is a professional tragedy and a love tragedy. That tragedy will forever pursue Ho until the tear at the end of the work becomes his liberation. In another short story also written on the topic of poor intellectuals, Nam Cao quoted a French writer as follows: People are only evil and spoiled before the dry eyes of the selfish ward, and tears are a sheet. cosmic morphing glasses. That work was named Tears of Tears by Nam Cao. The tears of contemporary intellectuals became an obsession for the writer, allowing him to race into the work as a unique artistic detail in Extra Life, a drop of water. Ho’s eyes are his self-awakening, his salvation from the fall. That has important implications for human personality.

Household is a young, poor writer with ambition and ideal career. He put aside material worries to fuel his career. He wishes to have a work for life, to win a Nobel Prize and translate it into all languages. And Ho would have had a chance to fulfill his dream if he didn’t have a family burden. That’s when Ho married Tu to become his wife and the children were born one after another. Households have a whole family to carry on their shoulders. He was forced to change the way he wrote to take care of his family. I have to write quickly, write quickly without having time to correct. It is a bland, tasteless prose and makes people read it once and then forget it.

Household may not care about it if you are irresponsible. But the voice of a true pen holder made him torment and hurt. He insulted himself, considering himself a ‘asshole’, a ‘dishonest’, because that sloppy writing violates his professional principles. But the reality of life gave him no other choice. The story of eternal life is not a joke with poor writers like him. He was forced to sacrifice his career aspirations to fulfill the responsibilities of a man in the family. The tragedy that saves is that the reality of life does not allow him to create art, crushes his will, and erodes the dream of a person who is ready to dedicate himself to art like him.

The tragedy of his career caused Ho great pain, but he also had to endure a second tragedy, the tragedy of love. For Ho, love is the principle of life, the noblest reason to live. It is the dividing line between humans and animals. He values ​​his life philosophy, that the strong are not those who step on the shoulders of others to satisfy selfishness, the strong must be the ones who support others on their own shoulders. Therefore, he bowed down to the pain of an unhappy woman like Tu, saving his honor and bringing happiness to Tu. It is a noble deed that others can hardly do. However, in order to support his family, he had to sacrifice art. And he vaguely understood that that small family was the cause of the career break he was suffering. So, unknowingly, all the frustrations in him, sometimes repressed. When it explodes, nothing can stop it. You drink, you spend too much money, you get angry for no reason. sometimes scolded, kicked his wife and children. Households are gradually violating the principles of life. His deeds and actions are no longer a manifestation of a person who values ​​love.

It will stay like this forever if there is no time when he is busy following you and getting drunk. When he woke up, he was startled when he remembered that yesterday he seemed to have chased his wife and children away. He looked around and saw Tu holding his baby sleeping in the hammock. Hou shed tears when looking at his wife’s soft and thin face and figure. He realized his mistake. No, family is not the cause of all his unhappiness. That’s where he lived to fulfill his humanity. That tear that did not wipe was a temporary weakness in the House, but it supported and protected his personality. Real life does not allow Ho to fulfill his career dream, but he is still able to be human in the full sense. But if you continue to violate even the principle of life, you will cross the line of being human. Tears have purified his soul, saved him from deadlocked mistakes. That awakening and repentance is the process of self-struggle of intellectuals against the temptations of life.

Filled in Tears or Households in Extraordinary Life is a testament to the fate of the poor intellectuals in contemporary society. The tears of those people become an artistic ‘code’ for the writer to express the meaning of the work. Going back and forth in the work of Nam Cao is the problem of the true artist before the reality of life, and one sees in it the image of the writer himself. Thereby, the writer has denounced the contemporary society for not creating conditions for intellectuals to realize their legitimate dreams and aspirations, not giving them the opportunity to contribute their talents to society, making them have to live a worn life, a redundant life.

In short, the detail of Ho’s teardrop is not only a moderation for the writer to express the character’s psychology, but it also contains profound ideological content. For Nam Cao’s work, tears are not a symbol of weakness, cowardice, and sentimentality, but a weapon to protect the honor and dignity of man. That has created a unique creative personality of the writer, an unmistakable face.

If in the Bright Moon, Nam Cao criticizes very well, very well, the romantic art of escapism, considering it “false moonlight”, and advocating that true art must return to real life, then in Life In addition, he also criticized the superficial description, “only describing the social appearance”. Writer Ho has a valid opinion about a friend’s book The Way Back, which is about to be translated into English: “The Way Back has only local value, do you understand? People translate it because they want to know the customs. It only captures the surface of society. I think it’s mediocre! The tendency to “describe feet” is only understood as “describe… legs”, which is to write about real things. The prevailing custom at that time ‘can only describe the appearance of the society, is that kind of left foot’. Coming to Nam Cao, the artistic sense of the realism trend is deeper and fresher. The writer not only contrasts the ‘false’ literature with the true literature, but also contrasts the superficial ‘true’ with the profound authenticity of genuine art.

Nam Cao’s opinion about “a really valuable work”, such a good work, shows that the writer’s artistic thought has an unexpected stature: A work of real value, must go above all else. boundaries and limits, must be a work common to all mankind. It must contain something big, powerful, both painful and exhilarating. It celebrates mercy, charity, justice… It brings people closer.

The seemingly impulsive words of the character Ho among the literary friends around that beer are a concise, profound and progressive artistic expression that belongs to the best artistic statements of today. and it still amazes people now… How could it be that in the context of colonial society’s turmoil and crisis at that time, there were fascism wars, persecutions, starvation… the writers also hungry for gold, a market of many chapters is a flea market full of fake goods of all kinds, and there is a writer from a small province, almost anonymous, who is sick, unemployed, and has a messy family. sloppy… is that Nam Cao, who can have serious, enthusiastic, artistic thoughts of such caliber.

Nam Cao mentioned that the most important thing that makes a true true value must be imbued with great humanitarian ideals: bringing universal human values, mentioning what is related to human destiny, and bringing love’s pain, while also evoking people’s beliefs and aspirations in the struggle to reach a life of compassion, justice, harmony… Literature brings people closer – that thought has met Shekhov: literature that reconciles man with man. How beautiful, how great such a thought.

Also through the character of Ho, Nam Cao spoke very well, very bravely about the requirement of research and discovery of the creative profession as literature: Literature does not need skilled craftsmen, following certain styles. melon samples. Literature is tolerant of those who know how to dig deep, explore, and uncover what is not there yet…. And let the character Ho every time he re-read a book or a passage signed by his name, written in a hasty, careless way, blushing, embarrassed, frowning, gritting his teeth, crumpling the book and self-destructive. scold me like an asshole (…) a dishonest (…) vile person. How strict Nam Cao has been in the requirements for literary work, for the conscience and responsibility of the writer. It can be said that, more than anywhere else, the short story The Extraordinary Life shows most fully not only the artistic views but also the entire human nature of Nam Cao, a great artist, with a big heart.

Surplus life does not have a dramatic plot and twists and turns, thrilling, without characters whose unique appearance, language, and behavior are read once and remembered forever… That is, the story is not very attractive. conductive on the outside. But it is impossible not to think that this is a very good short story, of an excellent type, demonstrating a very mature talent of the author. He is a very demanding person about always being innovative and creative in literature. Nam Cao has brought great and profound innovation in Vietnamese prose which is rapidly maturing towards modernization. The thing is that despite the bold innovation, the tradition of Nam Cao does not have a modern and unique appearance outside; which is often very simple and natural, very close to the real everyday life around. But that is the natural simplicity that can only be found in an old master pen.

The plot of Excess Life is quite simple, it can be said to be mediocre. The story takes place in a narrow space: the petty bourgeois couple, there is a collision because of poverty, but nothing is harsh and does not cause any significant events… But from the seemingly trivial things in life. In that daily family activity, the writer posed problems of great social and human significance, profound, and philosophical nuances. Both are very real life scenes, very familiar, and full of thoughts and ideas. This is achieved because the writer has lived life deeply, has observed, dissected and contemplated all that is experienced.

Nam Cao’s story shows that the writer’s analytical thinking is particularly sharp. The strange thing about Nam Cao’s talent is that he almost only writes about trivial facts that are familiar to the reader but has illuminated them in a very strong light of analysis, of thought, shielding the imagined truths. like meaningless trifles appearing with new aspects, with unexpected profound meanings. The story of the Extraordinary Life is just that meager, but many important issues in the spiritual life of the times have been hauntingly posed: individual and society, ideal and reality, art and common sense. , characters and circuTaxances…

The conflict of the story is not between the protagonists and villains, dominating and being ruled, but a persistent and intense conflict within the character’s interior. And it also reflects the irreconcilable conflict between people and societies hostile to people. Therefore, the story has a very authentic atmosphere, true in every smallest detail, and opens up vast areas of thought, bearing a profound philosophical meaning. However, the philosophy here is not abstract and metaphysical, but rather general thoughts squeezed from a hard-working life full of sweat and tears, from the bloody struggles of a loyal soul. true and courageous, always sticking to life and striving for the truth. This thinking and philosophy gives the Extraordinary Life a distinct voice.

Building the character of Ho, Nam Cao is not interested in portraying his personality with unique personality traits that make a strong impression – different from the characters in The Storm, Red Book, Light Out and even Chi Pheo. He focused on going deep into the character’s inner life and highlighting the intellectual tragedy of that intellectual. And here, the knack of describing psychological developments and showing the laws of human psychology stands out. It can be said that in the team of prose writers with many talents at the time, no one has a pen that is as sophisticated and profound in discovering and expressing psychology as Nam Cao.

Therein lies the artistic appeal of the Legacy – and of Nam Cao’s petit bourgeois compositions – as well.

Nam Cao is a famous realist and humanitarian writer of Vietnamese literature. Throughout his life as a writer, Nam Cao has always struggled to make his “eyes” able to empathize and understand. with the miserable lives, the small, unhappiness of the oppressed peasants and the poor intellectuals. “Leadership” is a short story about intellectuals, the work represents the example of “infinite knowledge”, and at the same time reveals Nam Cao’s masterful talent in building and describing the character’s psychology. . One of the notable characters in the short story “Leadership” is Tu – Ho’s unfortunate wife.

In the short story “Leadership”, the character Tu is not focused on describing details, but only appears through a few descriptions of Nam Cao in the last part of the work, which is a woman with “unlucky fate” with pale skin, pale lips, eyes with dark circles, sunken cheeks, hands full of bones… From appears with the look of a tired, pale, worried woman, thinking about living a livelihood, the beauty of girlhood has faded, leaving only the figure of an austere woman.

Analysis of the character Tu in the short story The Extraordinary Life of writer Nam Cao Tu is an unhappy woman who, at a young age, because she trusted too much in her dishonest and irresponsible lover, Tu had to face the tragedy of missing the village because being betrayed, this is also one of the most terrible tragedies for an honest woman, always yearning for love like Tu. The pitiful image of Tu after being abandoned made many readers cry because of the woman’s tragic and painful plight. After giving birth, Tu hugged her child and fasted, the old mother was blind, suffering and helpless before life. Tu could only cry so that the flesh would turn into tears, to die together “both mother and child have only one way to cry. until all the flesh has melted into tears, and then they all die.”

Character Tu converges all the good qualities of a wife who loves her husband and a mother who loves her children. Tu is a gentle, understanding, rich in sacrifice, in the face of Ho’s cruelty in a drunken state, Tu does not blame him but takes care of him because Tu knows that Ho’s suffering is because of Tu’s mother and son. From caring gestures to a bowl of warm water from being ready for the household to drink after a drunkenness, they all show the love of an austere but loving woman, and an altruistic heart.

Being treated cruelly by Ho, saying unintentional words when drunk, but Tu always sympathizes and loves her husband, she does not hug her children and leave because besides love and affection for her husband, Tu also has deep gratitude. It is very hard for Tu because Ho is the one who takes Tu when her life is at a standstill and is the most painful “From loving her husband with a love that is very close to that of a dog and its owner”, that is true love. to be absolute.

At the end of the story, when Ho woke up from a drunken state and regretted his cruel actions towards his wife, Tu acted tenderly and lovingly, Tu hugged her husband’s neck and said, “..no… I am just a miserable person…because you and I suffer” has shown that this is a woman rich in love, rich in forgiveness. She lulled her child through her tears, so the woman kept her sufferings in order to sympathize and understand her husband. It was Tu’s love that helped Ho wake up to change.

The deeply humane spirit of writer Nam Cao has been shown in his sympathy for the “unlucky” life of a loving woman like Tu and at the same time respect for the good values ​​inside a woman. misery, unhappiness.

The short story Extraordinary Life was written in 1943. It can be seen that Surpassed Life, thematically, directly contributed to the preparation of the writer’s novel Long Life, which was completed the following year, in 1944. It is no coincidence that both The works are autobiographical in nature and the titles both reveal a close creative mood and thought.

Surplus life writes about the life of a poor intellectual, a writer. Ho is an honest person who loves his wife and children, is very responsible for his family, is a writer who has the right mindset, is serious about his career, has the ambition to build a real work. value “will obscure all works at the same time”, even be awarded a Nobel Prize. But in reality, Hou had to endure many sad and humiliating scenes in life. The household has to work hard but still can’t earn enough money to support the family, running for medical treatment for a bunch of crippled, sick children. As a man, husband, and father with a self-respecting spirit, Ho was very distressed by the poverty situation, especially seeing Tu, his wife, the woman who had suffered a lot with her ex-lover. , came to me full of grace, but had to endure, err, and work so hard. Confused, heartbroken because of family matters.

Households rarely can sit and write peacefully, accomplishing the things they like and want. And despite the motives and good intentions, Ho had to write sloppy, slanderous, in order to make money, creating products that every time he reads “he blushes, frowns, grinds his teeth, crumples. broke the book and scolded me like an asshole.” The torments in the family because of poverty, because of the sight of his wife and children, the dissatisfaction and shame in writing that Ho so earnestly and so much hope, increasingly turn him into a dirty person. , rude, needless. Household scolded wife and children, drunk constantly. But every time she wakes up, she becomes sad, regretful, loves her wife and children more and blames herself. Through Nam Cao’s work, we see good people, people with ambitious dreams, honest and hardworking workers, why are they so miserable, both physically and mentally!

In such circuTaxances, people like Tu can only endure, be patient, and understand and love their husbands even more. But as Ho is a writer, the more Ho finds his living situation really heavy, with no way out, a real tragedy. Household sometimes said out loud that his wife and children hurt him, but in his heart he knew that was not the case. Not knowing who to blame, he blamed himself, scolded himself, gnawing at his grievances and suffering alone. The main character in the work is the writer. Therefore, in the work, through the life and especially the thoughts of the character Nam Cao, he directly addressed an issue that he often cared about, which was the issue of artistic creation, conception and requirements. his literature.

Household is very passionate about literature. Literary creation is the aspiration and ideal of Ho’s life. At first, Ho despised the mundane worries about material things, putting all his heart into cultivating his talent that grew more and more each day. Households read, think, explore, comment and think without getting bored. Households know that going into the literary profession will be poor and miserable, but they accept. Literature also brings Hou incomparable joy. Every time Ho confided in his wife, he read a good passage: “… Hey, Tu… Come to think of it, my life is not worth suffering, but it turns into suffering, I made my body suffer, I was so addicted to literature that I suffered. . However, although it is really hard, if there is a rich person willing to exchange for my position, I am not sure I have changed it. I think: when I read a passage like this, but understand all the good things, no matter how delicious a dish is, I don’t like it. Very happy! Why is there such a talented person in the world?”

According to Ho, a work of real value, the work Ho hopes to write in his entire literary life, cannot only have local value, not only describes the appearance of society, but “must overcome transcending all boundaries and limitations, must be a work common to all mankind. It must contain something big, powerful, both painful and exhilarating. It celebrates mercy, charity, and justice. It makes people closer to people.”

Surely that is also Nam Cao’s wish and request for a good work of literature. Literature is not only a profession but also a karma, a bond, an intrinsic need of literature, in terms of creation as well as enjoyment, pain but also joy, happiness, and voluntariness. each one. Literature is the domain of talent, of inter-talent. The noble effect of literature is to humanize society and life, making people sympathize with each other and close to each other.

Nam Cao severely criticizes the disease of sloppiness in literature, considering sloppy writers to be rogues. He wrote: “It is dishonorable in any profession. But literary sloppiness is despicable.” Nam Cao also affirms very clearly that writing and making art is about discovery and creativity: constantly, giving readers something strange, something new, something unique, which is this. Only talent and diligence can do it. Nam Cao wrote: “Literature does not need skilled craftsmen, following a few models given to them. Literature only tolerates those who know how to dig deep, explore, unearth sources that have not yet been discovered and create what has not yet been created”!

That is a very accurate concept, a very high requirement for literature. Writers and artists, of course, must know how to “practice”, must be knowledgeable about techniques, must be “skillful” to a certain extent, especially in certain arts, such as sculpture, musical performance etc… But writers, artists, by the nature of their activities, are not workers, even skilled craftsmen, who follow the available models, according to the “orders” of the people. other. Literature and art is a spiritual activity, the “inner urge” is an irresistible emotion and thought of an artist who puts it into words, music, and pictures… Only “intense” literature , if you can’t write it down, you can’t move other people’s souls, it’s valuable.

Moreover, in the field of literature, it is not enough to be real and sincere, but also to be profound and new, to “unleash sources that have not yet been opened and create things that have not yet existed”. Without depth, without discovering and creating new things, without a new perspective, without a new voice, it is impossible to have a real foothold in the art world.

According to Nam Cao, those who hold pencils can write things that are tasteless, bland, evoke shallow emotions, “act out some very common ideas that are disturbed in a flat and too easy writing”, do not bring little novelty to literature, are useless people, superfluous people. In the work, Nam Cao used the concepts of redundant people and redundant life in a definite sense. Excess is not useful, unnecessary for people and society. Only honest people, who have the right thoughts and requirements about human values ​​in life, about true creativity, know what is redundant, dare to accept and feel sorry for their love. its excess. Surplus people, redundant life is an awareness, a cry about the tastelessness, deadlock in life.

This topic Nam Cao has raised in one form or another in many of his short stories, especially later exploited in a broader and deeper way in the novel Living Away. Nam Cao’s characters, especially intellectual ones, are often very introverted. In order to present the inner life of the character, sometimes the author directly uses the method of psychological description, but often allows the character to reveal, talk to himself, “inner monologue”. In The Extraordinary Life, Nam Cao also combines two methods: describing the character’s actions and gestures, relationships, and the character’s words, and at the same time letting the character reveal and talk to himself (uniquely). internal phone).

That is why the work has many lyrical properties, many paragraphs really move the reader, because of his sincere thoughts, because of the pain of the character and the author himself. In the depths of the Extraordinary Life, there is a poetry from the longing for beauty, the longing for a life in which people know how to love each other and can live worthy and meaningful lives. Nam Cao often talked about Tsekhov, hoping to write like Tsekhov. In Nam Cao, there is also poetry, lyricism, sadness, and pitying love for people like in Tsekhov. And, like Tsekhop Nam Cao deeply feels the meaning and tragedy of life in the seemingly small, meaningless thoughts around him every day.

The scenes of frustration and heartbreak in the family that Ho and Tu went through, the proud confidence and boredom, the noble and trivial thoughts that always entangled Ho’s mind while holding the pen. ordinary story, nothing worth talking about, but through Nam Cao’s talent and soul, it has become the pain and tragedy of people, of life, the pain and tragedy of superfluous people, of extra life. Nam Cao’s works always make people pay more attention, look deeper into the ordinary, everyday things around and in themselves, live more consciously, be more compassionate, pull people out of the situation. petty, ludicrous, cruel, self-indulgently self-satisfied, that is, making people “unsettled” as one famous writer has said about the function of literature.

Surplus life has a very natural texture. In fact, this is a kind of story without a plot. Almost nothing happened. The writer talked about Tu’s unfortunate past, the process of Ho and Tu getting to know each other and becoming husband and wife, about a meeting between Ho and his fellow writers, but focusing mainly on his thoughts and feelings. Ho’s heartache for not being able to fulfill his life’s earnest desire to write and complete works of real value as he wished and believed he could do.

Instead of devoting all her energy to literature, devoting herself to a noble cause, choosing all her best, Ho was busy making a living, always disturbed by family scenes. children, needy, so that people also become vulgar, lowly, the original dream also fades away. House’s mood is torn on the one hand by the desire to be creative, to reach the heights in literature and, on the other hand, by the pragmatic and urgent demands of a hard and deprived family life on a daily basis. The uniqueness and depth of the work lies in the tension in Ho’s mood, in the quality of the main character’s thoughts, which speak for the author about life and literary creation.

It can be said that the character in Waiting is a character – mood. The poetic and lyrical qualities are found throughout the work. The depth and novelty of the subject, the quality of thought, the poetic and the lyrical qualities have created a special attraction for The Legacy, as well as for many other works of Nam Cao which are structured in a very natural way. However, allowing readers to return many times to his short stories, stopping on each idea, each sentence he wrote.

The unique and unique short story ‘Leadership’ was written in 1943. It can be considered as one of the works that contributed significantly in terms of the topic of direct preparation for the famous novel “River of Worm” by then of the author. writer Nam Cao in 1944. And through his work, the image of an intellectual is depicted in poverty and his ambitions are drowned when being pursued by poverty.

“Leadership” is a work written about the life of a poor intellectual, a writer. Ho is an honest person, and he also loves his wife and children very much. Ho is a person who is very responsible for his family, is a writer with a right mindset, he is always serious about his career, moreover, he has the ambition to build a valuable work that “will blur all the works at the same time”, maybe even win a Nobel Prize. But the reality is harsh when Ho has to endure so many sad scenes, which are extreme humiliations in life. The household seems to have had to work hard but still cannot earn enough money to support the family, running for medical treatment for a bunch of children who are crippled and sick.

Built up as a man and a husband and father with a very self-respecting spirit, Ho is probably very distressed at the poverty situation, especially seeing Tu, his wife, the woman. This woman also seems to have suffered a lot with her ex-lover, came to me full of gratitude, and had to endure suffering, confusion, and hard work. Confused, heartbroken because of family matters. Households don’t seem to be able to sit and write peacefully, doing the things they like and want. It is poverty that makes writer Ho write quickly and carelessly in literature, articles that people forget after reading them. The household feels very humiliated and ashamed of themselves and their former ambitions.

It can be said that in such a situation, people like Tu can only endure, be patient, and understand their husbands and love them more. But it seems that in Ho is a writer, Ho seems to see that the living situation is really heavy, like there is no way out, a real tragedy. Writer Ho sometimes said out loud that his wife and children made him miserable, but in his heart he knew that was not the case. Perhaps not knowing who to blame, he blamed himself, scolded himself, gnawing at his grievances and suffering alone.

The main character in the work is the writer. That is why in the work, through the life and especially the thoughts of the character Nam Cao, he also directly addressed an issue that he often cared about, which is the problem of artistic creation. , his conception and requirements on literature. Household is very passionate about literature. Literary creation is the aspiration and ideal of Ho’s life. At first, Ho despised the mundane worries about material things, putting all his heart into cultivating his talent that grew more and more each day. Households read, think, explore, comment and think without getting bored. Households know that going into the literary profession will be poor and miserable, but they accept. And it is with literature that also brings Hou incomparable joy. Every time Ho confided in his wife, he read a good passage.

And then when Ho had to write sloppy works quickly so that he could have more money to take care of his life. It is poverty that has made Ho become a “vulgar” in literature. And this is also the concept of writer Nam Cao put into it. Readers are sure that it is also Nam Cao’s wish and request for a good work, about literature. Literature for Ho or the writer Nam Cao is not only a profession but also a career, a bond, an intrinsic need for literature. And both in terms of composing as well as enjoying, it’s a pain but also a joy, a happiness, a voluntariness of each person. Literature seems to have been seen as a field of talent, of inter-talent. We can see that the noble effect of literature is to humanize society and life today, making people sympathize with each other and close to each other.

Writer Nam Cao also seems to have severely criticized the disease of sloppiness in literature, referring to sloppy writers as rogues. He wrote: “It is dishonorable in any profession. But literary sloppiness is despicable.” Nam Cao has also strongly and clearly asserted that writing and art is about discovery, creativity, and especially not stopping, giving readers something strange, and that is a something new, something unique, which can only be done with talent and diligence. Nam Cao writes that “Literature does not need skilled craftsmen, following a few models given. Literature can only be tolerated by those who know how to dig deep, explore, unearth sources that have not yet been discovered, and create what has not yet been created”!

It can be said that this is a very accurate concept, a very high requirement for literature. As a writer as an artist, of course, you must know how to “practice”, then of course you must be technically savvy, you must be “skillful” to a certain extent, especially in certain arts, for example. such as sculpture, musical performance, etc. But it seems that for writers and artists, in essence, it is not a worker, even a skilled craftsman, to follow the patterns that exist. available, following the “orders” of others. Literature and art is a spiritual activity, an “inner urge” as if it were the emotions and thoughts of the artist who could not be suppressed into words, music, pictures… Perhaps that was only the case. That kind of “gut” literature, if you can’t write it down, will vibrate the hearts of others and be valuable.

Moreover, especially and more importantly, in the field of literature, only being real and sincere is not enough, but it must also be profound and new, “unearthing sources that no one has opened and creating what has not yet been”. . Without insight, without discovering and creating new things, and without a new perspective, and without a new voice, it is impossible to have a real foothold in the art world. Nam Cao, like at this time, also felt deeply the meaning and tragedy of life in the seemingly small, meaningless thoughts around him every day.

It seems that the scenes of frustration and heartbreak in the family that Ho and Tu experienced, the proud confidence and the boredom, the noble and too trivial thoughts always torn Ho’s mind while holding it. pen. It seems to be a common thing, nothing worth mentioning, but through Nam Cao’s talent and soul, it has become the pain and tragedy of people, of life, the pain and tragedy of superfluous people, of superfluous life. Which of Nam Cao’s works has always made people pay more attention, look more deeply into some ordinary, everyday things around and in themselves. And it must be like living more consciously, more lovingly, pulling people out of their petty, ridiculous, cruel, and unselfishly self-satisfied, that is, making people “insecure” like As a famous writer spoke about the function of literature.

It can be seen that “Leadership” has a very natural texture. And in the end, this is actually a kind of story without a plot. The very things are almost nothing. The writer talked about Tu’s unhappy past, both about the process of Ho and Tu getting to know each other and becoming husband and wife. Or even about a meeting between Ho and his fellow writers, but it seems to have been focused mainly on Ho’s thoughts and heartache, also because of not being able to fulfill his life’s earnest desire to write. writing, completing works of real value as they wish and believe they can do.

And perhaps should have devoted all her energy to literature, devoted herself to a noble cause, choosing all her best, but Ho seemed to be busy making a living, always being disturbed by The family situation is small and impoverished, so that people also become vulgar, lowly, and the original dream also fades away. Readers can see that Ho’s mood is torn on the one hand by the desire to be creative, to reach the heights in literature and, on the other, by the pragmatic and urgent demands of a hard family life. , these are the daily necessities. It can be seen that the uniqueness and depth of the work lies in the tension in Ho’s mood, and also in the quality of the main character’s thoughts, which speak for the author about life and literary creation.

It seems that the depth and novelty of the subject matter, the quality of thought, the poetic and the lyrical qualities have created a special appeal for the unique work “Leadership”, perhaps as well as for many other works. Nam Cao’s other works are structured in a very natural way, allowing readers to return many times to his short stories, stopping on each idea and sentence he wrote.

Nam Cao is a famous writer in Vietnamese literature, he delved into realism, describing all the miseries of the good people in the old society from farmers to intellectuals. Most of those works have a plot that is the tragedy of the main character’s life, but still imbued with a deep humanity in each word, especially the love for fellow human beings and the Extraordinary Life is the main character. such a work.

Nam Cao (1917-1951), a native of Ha Nam province, living in a state of poverty and mourning everywhere, with a foundation of art for humanity, Nam Cao soon became aware of the spirit of the Revolution. network, he participated in both combat and writing as a journalist on the battlefield. In his writing life, Nam Cao has many profound and humanistic artistic views, the most impressive being the saying: “Wow, art need not be the moonlight that deceives, it should not be the moonlight. lies; art can only be the cry of suffering, coming out of miserable lives, and writers must not hide from art, but must stand in labor and open their souls to the vibrations of life. That art must be associated with people’s lives, going deep into the tragedy of suffering in order to understand and sympathize. Nam Cao’s famous works include Chi Pheo, Extraordinary Life, and Eyes after the August Revolution, a work that marks a change in the writer’s perception and artistic perspective.

The Extraordinary Life was written and published for the first time in 1943, this is a special work of Nam Cao about the fate of the intelligentsia in the years before the revolution. human because it has crossed all boundaries of tolerance between people, which is a precious sentiment. It is confirmed that the work of making art is not only done in a rough manner, but it is a full-fledged work that the artist has to spend, including blood and tears. If the writing is sloppy, it is called unscrupulous, dishonest, and despicable because the work is the eternal brainchild of the writer. All of the above are reflected in the work of Legacy, where the main character is Ho, an intellectual who has a passion for literature but has to go against his wishes because he has to earn money to support his wife. children, that pushed Ho into the tragedy of life, into a vicious circle with no way out.

The story opens with Tu’s eyes, Ho’s wife looks at him with timid eyes in which there is love and patience, the image of Ho’s character appears very clearly, which also partly covers life. current life of the household. The thick eyebrows are drawn together, the forehead is wrinkled, the cheeks are high and glossy, the nose is also high and straight, the bright eyes are slightly protruding. All of these features give Ho a “gaunty” look and “looks austere to the point of ferocity”, even the person who spends his days cuddling with him is scared. “Tu is scared”.

Talking about the woman with an unfortunate fate, who once cried until her tears ran out, was about to die with her newborn child when she was abandoned by her lover. But Tu’s life turned to another direction, when he was adopted by Ho, a good man who loved literature, adopted him as a wife and became a mother, a resigned and patient wife. Nam Cao compares Tu’s love for her husband to that of a dog for its owner. “Tu is a very good wife, very obedient, very devoted”, for many years Tu has never once had another thought, or argued with her husband, because for Tu, Ho is not only a life saver. his life out of the mud, but also the person that Tu has to be grateful for for the rest of his life, on behalf of both his mother and his baby. From nothing, Tu only has empty hands, proper tenderness and deep gratitude, so even if she has to be a slave to Ho, she will not give up.

However, he was not happy for long, because after his humane behavior, along with his wife’s love, Ho turned to another path and that was not his ideal. Poor households, it is true that writers in the pre-revolutionary era did not have a rich person, fortunately enough to have enough food, clothing, and support to support themselves, let alone raise a family, both a wife and a few children. waiting for Household to bring the money. From here, Ho stepped away from the path of true writing with passionate works, giving up the great ambition he had pursued all his youth, to write literature that, in his opinion, is “all the the tasteless, bland, evokes very light, very shallow sentiments, acting out some very common ideas mixed in a flat and too permissive prose.

When she reread the passages, she felt ashamed and blushed. She felt so miserable, so dishonest, and her lack of literature made her feel so despicable. For several years, Ho did not have a satisfactory work, he found himself superfluous in the literary world where there was no need for “skillful craftsmen, following a few models given” but only tolerated who knows how to discover new things. I think so and see how painful it is, thoughts of self-blame keep swirling around in the mind of a man who is austere because he has to take care of his wife and children. struggling with pain contrary to professional conscience. But can Ho go back to his ambition and leave his wife and children?

The conscience and responsibility of a husband and father do not allow him to do so, Ho comforts himself with the thought of trying to make money for a few years to earn enough capital to start a small business, then he will be free to fulfill your literary dream in the most kind way. But life is always so cruel when the couple’s children are born one after another, they are constantly crying, constantly sick, making Tu almost no longer have the strength to take care of any more work. The house was noisy, making it impossible for Ho to concentrate and write anything properly. There were many times when he felt frustrated and resentful in his heart, “while sitting, he suddenly stood up, his eyes filled with water, his face was pitiful. , struggled to go to the street, swallowing while walking. At first, the household just went to find a few friends to discuss literature, drink a couple of beers and a lemonade to quench their thirst, then when all the hardships and discomforts were gone, the household returned home in constant sadness.

But gradually, she changed, she went out and came home in a drunken state that didn’t know the moon and fell on the bed, and she stayed at home and waited for her husband to tiptoe to sleep before daring to change clothes and cover her with blankets. , put a pillow for her husband. Those were the days when Ho was asleep, there were still days when he didn’t understand why, he also came home drunk and then glared at his wife, saying things like scaring children, Tu did not dare to say a word, because she thought Oh, it’s all my fault. Ho threatened to chase, threatened to kill, maybe because of poverty and suffering, Tu uttered such words, sometimes when I read it, I feel that it is not Ho’s sincere words, is it that Ho is just joking? , jokingly to ease his grief and sorrow, because the intonation of the sentence while drunk was not crazy at all, it seemed that Ho was just threatening some tiny children who did not know anything.

But when he woke up from a drunken state, he returned to being an exemplary husband and wife, loving his wife and children like he had never said yesterday, and soon became familiar. From no longer angry. Because Tu himself also thought that Ho’s tragedy was brought by Tu, many times Tu wanted to carry his child far away, perhaps then Ho would end his suffering and return to being a bright young man. not the austere, alcoholic man like now. But the soft feelings in Tu kept Tu’s feet from taking half a step and Tu continued to obediently take care of her husband and children with the most loyal love and sacrifice. From remembering the time when Ho kissed and held the children, when the blue-faced household stayed up all night to take care of his illness, Tu realized how much both husband and wife loved and needed each other, so Tu could not leave. , From will stay until the end with her husband and children, it’s okay to be hungry, just be together.

The story continued to enter its vicious circle when Tu mentioned the money for the house, Ho was annoyed again, because so many things needed money, and the money ran out on the 10th of the month. He regrets that he spent too much to make his wife and children squint, even hungry, so he decided to get his salary today, he would go straight home, eat with his wife and children, buy some more food and so on, Ho insisted that his wife wait for him to come home to eat. Then things did not go as Ho thought he continued to plunge into drinking with his friends, forgetting that his wife and children were eagerly waiting for their father to return. The next morning Ho woke up at home, he was startled to find his wife, Ho was afraid of giving up, because he seemed to vaguely remember yesterday that he had beaten and kicked Tu too.

Fortunately, Tu was still at home, hugging his son and falling asleep in the hammock, now Ho regrets so much, how could he do this to his weak-armed wife, who has never argued with him. only know how to obediently take care of his father and son day after day. He cried, cried because he was helpless before life, cried because he loved his wife, also cried for the opposite tragedy of his life, he made himself miserable and also suffered his wife and children because of his ego, his self-blame, full of regret about his life. old ambitions. That is to say people only really do well when they fully focus on them, and Ho Anh both want to live for the ideal and want to live for the reality (make money), but these two things can’t be reconciled. . At the end of Tu’s lullaby, many thoughts have arisen: “Who makes the wind rise to the heavens, Lets rain to the earth, and separates people; Who causes the South and the North to separate, For the two rows of tears to drenched their bodies. ..”

The miserable life of the Ho couple was probably the biggest source of that was the country’s background in the years before the revolution, that society had clamped down on farmers and intellectuals, forcing them to live in a precarious life. filled with tragedy, typically Ho, an intellectual with many ambitions and dreams, but in the end, because of the hardship stemming from his compassion for people, he had to suffer.

The short story “Leadership” is one of Nam Cao’s excellent works on the topic of social reality before the August Revolution, 8, in which we see a very strange paradox, the humanity of the character. It is also the thread that leads to the tragedy of their own lives, and then from that tragedy we see other emotions emerge, that is, the love of husband and wife, father and son, and human love. And perhaps the most impressive thing is Ho’s deeply tormented love of literature, emphasizing a very favorite artistic point of Nam Cao: Literature must not be sloppy, sloppy is dishonest. mind, is vile.

Nam Cao is a great Vietnamese writer. His works bring great value to the Vietnamese literary treasure. The short story “Leadership” that he wrote in 1943 is a typical work of his literary style.

The work clearly shows the image of poor intellectuals. With great ambitions drowned by the clinging poverty. Today, let’s analyze Nam Cao’s short story “Leadership”. Analysis of Nam Cao’s short story work “Leadership life”The work “Leadership life” talks about the life of a writer, a poor intellectual. That writer is a responsible person to the family. Love your wife, love your children and be an honest person. He always had big dreams in his heart. And really serious about his literary work. He has the desire to write a work of a lifetime. One work may eclipse other works of its time, and that work will win a Nobel Prize.

But a really harsh reality. This life seems to have drowned his cherished dream. A scene of life with many sad thoughts about life. Working hard all day to earn money, but still not enough money to support the family. There is no money to take care of the cubs when they are sick. An image of a man, a husband, a father with very high self-esteem. The character Ho, built to be really a model man in that society. He was very distressed by the plight of his family, saddened by the poverty of the family. And he was also really upset when his wife was Tu. A woman suffering with her ex-lover came to him, but had to endure hardships and hardships with him.

A life of hardship and poverty makes it impossible for Ho to have time to write literature peacefully. And that’s why, Ho writes quickly and sloppily. His literary works are not well-organized, even when people have read them, they have forgotten them. The household feels ashamed of themselves. Feeling really humiliated thinking about my great ambitions before.

It can be said that in such a situation, people like Tu can only endure, be patient, and understand their husbands and love them more. But it seems that in Ho is a writer. The household seems to have seen that the living situation is really heavy, like there is no way out, a real tragedy. Writer Ho sometimes said out loud that his wife and children made him miserable, but in his heart he knew that was not the case. Perhaps not knowing who to blame, he blamed himself, scolded himself. Swallow the grievances and suffering alone.

The main character in the work is the writer. Therefore, the work has passed through the life and especially the thoughts of the character Nam Cao. As also mentioned directly to an issue that he is often interested in. That is the problem of artistic creation, his conception and requirements on literature. Household is very passionate about literature. Literary creation is the aspiration and ideal of Ho’s life. At first, Ho despised the petty worries about material things. Devote all your efforts to cultivating the talent that grows more and more each day. Households read, think, explore, comment and think without getting bored. Households know that going into the literary profession will be poor and miserable, but they accept. And it is with literature that also brings Hou incomparable joy. Every time Ho confided in his wife, he read a good passage.

And then when Ho had to quickly write sloppy works so that he could have more money to take care of his life. It was poverty that made Ho become a “scumbag” in literature. And this is also the concept of writer Nam Cao put into it. Readers are also sure that it is also a wish. Is Nam Cao’s request for a good work, about literature. Literature for Ho or the writer Nam Cao is not only a profession but also a career. A bond, a literary inner need. And both in terms of creation as well as enjoyment. It is the pain but also the joy, the happiness, the voluntariness of each person.

Literature seems to have been seen as the field of talent, of inter-talent. We can see that the noble effect of literature is to humanize society and life today. Make people empathize with each other, close to each other. Writer Nam Cao also seems to have severely criticized the disease of sloppiness in literature. See sloppy writers as rogues. He wrote: “It is dishonorable in any profession. But literary sloppiness is despicable.”

Nam Cao also asserted strongly and very clearly in writing. Making art is about discovering, creating, and especially having to constantly bring readers something strange. And that is something new, something unique, which can only be done with talent and diligence. Nam Cao writes that “Literature does not need skilled craftsmen, following a few models given. Literature can only accommodate those who dig deep. Know how to explore, open sources that no one has opened and create what has not been”!

It can be said that it is a very accurate concept, a very high requirement for literature. As a writer as an artist, of course, you must know how to “practice”, then of course you must be technically savvy. Must be “dexterous” to a certain extent, especially in certain arts. For example, sculpture, musical performance, etc. But it seems that for writers and artists, in essence, activity.

It is not a craftsman, even a skilled craftsman, to follow the patterns available. Follow the “orders” of others. Literature and art is a spiritual activity, an “inner urge”. It seems that it is the emotion and thought that cannot be suppressed by the artist expressed into words, into music, into paintings… Perhaps it is only the “gut” literature. If you can’t write it down, you can’t move other people’s souls, it’s valuable.

Moreover, especially and more importantly, in the field of literature. Only being real, sincere, not enough, but also profound, must be new, “unearth sources that no one has opened and create what has not yet been”. If there is no depth, no new discovery and creation, and no new perspective. And without a new voice, it is impossible to get a real foothold in the art world. Nam Cao, like at this time, also felt deeply the meaning and tragedy of life in the seemingly small, meaningless thoughts around him every day.

It seems that the scenes of frustration and heartbreak in the family that Ho and Tu have experienced. Confidence comes to welcome and discouragement. Thoughts that were so noble and yet so trivial always tore through Ho’s mind while holding the pen. Seems to be common sense, nothing to say. But through the talent and soul of Nam Cao has become the pain, tragedy of people, of life. The pain and tragedy of superfluous people, of superfluous life.

Which of Nam Cao’s works has always attracted people’s attention? Look deeper than a few ordinary, everyday things around and in yourself. And it must be like living more consciously, more compassionately. Pulling people out of their petty, ridiculous, cruel condition. And has selflessly contented himself, that is, making people “unsettled” like a famous writer has talked about the function of literature. After reading the work “Leadership”, the reader feels that it has a very natural structure. A short story has no plot and the events take place almost nothing.

Nam Cao described Tu’s unhappy past. Talking about the process of meeting and forming a husband and wife relationship between Ho and Tu. Describe Ho’s meeting with a literary friend. But focusing on that story is to write down the heartache of a poor writer, Ho. It was because of his poor life that he could not fulfill the great aspirations of his life. The household was unable to complete a truly valuable literary work.

It should have been for a writer who loves his job and is as enthusiastic as Ho. All efforts will be directed towards writing, devoted to the craft of writing. However, in a miserable life, a husband and father are forced to take care of the family’s food. But in that society, it is even harder to feed a family with a poor person. All for the sake of a living, always disturbed by poverty, poverty. An intellectual is also because of that becomes vulgar and inferior, dreams and desires gradually fade away.

Readers can see that House’s mood is torn on one side by the desire for creativity. Reaching the heights in literature and beyond are the pragmatic and urgent demands of family life. It is hard work and daily deprivations. The uniqueness and depth of the work can be seen in the tension in Ho’s mood. And it also lies in the quality of the main character’s thoughts that tell the author about life and literary creation.

The novelty, the depth of thinking. With the way of shaping the characters, the simplicity in the literary style made Nam Cao’s work “Leadership” happen in a very natural way. Create an attraction for the reader. When reading Nam Cao’s “Leadership Life”, it seems that readers will have profound feelings about the poor fate of knowledge in the ancient society. And deep sympathy for these destinies.

Nam Cao is an outstanding writer of Vietnamese literature, he has many works written in the period before 1945. Among his works can be mentioned are Nam Cao’s Doi Thua, or Chi Pheo. Each work reflects the social reality at that time.

In the face of the troubled social situation, Nam Cao always shows his desire in the face of social reality, always reflects the society in the most profound and meaningful way. Each detail is the inner turmoil torn in the character’s creative way of life, as well as reflecting the real society at that time. The work showed the harshness of society at that time, it turned people into alienated people pushed by society, making intellectuals suffer heavily in terms of food and money in society. .

Through the way of constructing contradictory situations, Nam Cao wanted to build a work to denounce the social reality at that time, where people always had to go through the ups and downs of life. With the difficult social situation, people are surrounded by hunger, it is the tragedy of the character Ho that the author intends for the author to reflect on the problems of the times, of the feudal society at that time.

With many aspirations and ideals, but being crushed by society, those dreams and ambitions have suppressed their dreams, they are facing a life of poverty, and then sink into the tragedies of the times. Grand. The character Ho appearing in the work is a writer, an intellectual, but because of hunger and suffering, so many ambitions of this character have disappeared, he torments himself, being a useless person. , could not do anything for his family, therefore, he fell into the tragedy of married life. It was poverty that made those intellectuals alienated, there was no way out.

Nam Cao has successfully built his character’s image, with subtleties in his style of composition, he lets his character express his mood, express his inner feelings, he lets people His characters are monologues, thereby revealing the psychological developments. When the character Ho Ho realizes the real life, he completely separates from the life in literature.

It is poverty that has made artists sad, before social reality, many difficulties, inadequacies, so many values, memories, appearance, he suffers before the present life. Before the social reality, the writer has deeply reflected the social reality. True to Nam Cao’s view of life, art is not a deceiving moonlight, art must be a life of suffering, escaping from miserable lives, it is true that each of his works has left gives readers reflections on life, the future and real values ​​that are reflected most profoundly and subtly.

Surplus life is a work that deeply reflects social reality, in which intellectuals are socialized, pushed into tragedy, they fall under the pressure of money, but trample on true art. It is poverty that has turned true artists into breaking the rules they have set out.

It is poverty that corrupts the soul of true artists, an artist is a person who always creates, not according to available patterns, an artist must be talented, and express his creativity. me. It can be said that Nam Cao has deeply portrayed the image of intellectuals being corrupted in a poor society.

In the pre-1945 society, people always suffered due to poverty surrounded by poverty, people were alienated, and true artists were always under pressure of money, daily food and clothes, only to be spared. transform the souls of artists.