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Varieties of the Historical Novel in the Works of the Vietnamese Writer Nguyen Xuan Khanh
- Authors: Muralova E.O.1
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 6(900) (2025)
- Pages: 126-133
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/301179
- ID: 301179
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This article examines the varieties of the historical novel, using as examples the works of the Vietnamese writer Nguyen Xuan Khanh (1933-2021), specifically "Ho Quy Ly" (2000) and "Mother Goddess of Mountains and Forests" (2005). These novels have received limited attention in Russian and English-language literary criticism. The study employs V. Malkina’s concept of subgenres within the historical novel as its theoretical framework. By applying comparative historical and structural methods, the article identifies the subgenre of each of the aforementioned novels. The analysis concludes that V. Malkina’s system for categorizing historical novel varieties is applicable to modern Vietnamese literature, as exemplified by the works of Nguyen Xuan Khanh.
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Ekaterina Olegovna Muralova
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: murket96@mail.ru
PhD Student, Department of Philology of the Southeast Asian countries, Korea and Mongolia, Institute of Asian and African Studies
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