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January 17, 2021. Dumb Luck by Vũ Trọng Phụng is a Vietnamese social satire of the rise of Red Haired Xuân from street urchin and ball boy to wealthy, national hero. He is no innocent but rather a young rouge who adroitly takes advantage of the family of Mr and Mrs Deputy Customs Officer to rise in Vietnamese society.
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Jun 5, 2002 · Dumb Luck is the first translation of a major work by Vu Trong Phung, arguably the greatest Vietnamese writer of the twentieth century. The novel's clever plot, richly drawn characters and humorous tone and its preoccupation with sex, fashion and capitalism will appeal to a wide audience.
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Publication date. 1936. Published in English. 2002. Dumb Luck ( Số đỏ) is a 1936 novel by the famous Vietnamese novelist, Vũ Trọng Phụng. The novel served as an contemporary critique on the Vietnamese late colonial society by the means of satirizing the rising bourgeoisie.
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- Vũ Trọng Phụng
- 2002
Dumb Luck is the first translation of a major work by Vu Trong Phung, arguably the greatest Vietnamese writer of the twentieth century. The novel's clever plot, richly drawn characters and humorous tone and its preoccupation with sex, fashion and capitalism will appeal to a wide audience.
Dumb luck : a novel. by. Vũ, Trọng Phụng, 1912-1939. Publication date. 2002. Topics. Social change -- Vietnam -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Publisher. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press.
Dumb Luck is the first translation of a major work by Vu Trong Phung, arguably the greatest Vietnamese writer of the twentieth century. The novel's clever plot, richly drawn characters and...
Dumb Luck (Vu Trong Phung) - book review. Vu Trong Phung. translated from the Vietnamese. The University of Michigan Press 2002. A book review by Danny Yee © 2006 https://dannyreviews.com/ A comic farce set in late-colonial Vietnam, in Hanoi, Dumb Luck traces the meteoric rise of ball-boy Xuan.