Title: A General Review of the Realist Literary Tendencies in Vietnam from the Perspective of Literary Theory

Abstract: In the process of modern Vietnamese literary history, realist literature and the tendency toward realistic writing have played an important historical role. As a vital component of Vietnamese revolutionary literature, it not only shows the lively reality in Vietnam during the anti-colonial war, but also contributes many outstanding authors and literary theorists to its national literary scene. Using a historical and theoretical approach combined with the perspective of modern literary history, this paper systematically reviews the Vietnamese realist literary tendency through three aspects, namely, the emergence of realist literary tendencies in Vietnam, Lê Đình Kỵ’s literary ideas and the rise of the schools of realist literary creation in Vietnam, and Đỗ Đức Dục and the standardized development of Vietnamese realism. This paper helps summarize the theoretical foundations and basic characteristics of the development of realist literature in Vietnam, offering a solid theoretical and practical basis for the development of modern Vietnamese literature and its relationship with world literature.

Keywords: Vietnamese literature, realist literature, realistic writing, literary tendencies, modernity significance

Author: Ngô Viết Hoàn, Assistant Professor, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2025.02.013