Dumb Luck (novel)

Dumb Luck
Author	Vũ Trọng Phụng
Country	French Indochina Việt Nam
Publication date	1936
Published in English	2002

Dumb Luck (Số đỏ) is a 1936 novel by Vietnamese novelist Vũ Trọng Phụng which satirises the late-colonial Vietnamese middle classes. The novel was banned by the Vietnamese Communist Party, first in North Vietnam from 1960 to 1975, then throughout the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam until 1986,^[1] due to the author's realistic description of sexual content which was considered unsuitable. Until now, the book "Dumb Luck" was re-published in Vietnam. At the same time, literary production are also included in the curriculum at the high school in Vietnam. All, if not some, characters of this novel are antagonists.

An English translation was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2002.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Zinoman, Peter. "Vũ Trọng Phụng's Dumb Luck and the nature of Vietnamese modernism." Introduction to Dumb Luck. Vũ Trọng Phụng. Translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Peter Zinoman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. ISBN 0-472-06804-0.

External links

University of Michigan Press publicity page

[dumb_luck-1] Zinoman, Peter. "Vũ Trọng Phụng's Dumb Luck and the nature of Vietnamese modernism." Introduction to Dumb Luck. Vũ Trọng Phụng. Translated by Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Peter Zinoman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. ISBN 0-472-06804-0.

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