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Literature and human destiny

(GLO)- The new era that our Party is focusing on leading the entire nation to, simply put, is an era in which everyone in the nation is happy. Or as Uncle Ho said simply - "...our people are completely free, everyone has food to eat, clothes to wear, everyone can go to school".

Báo Gia LaiBáo Gia Lai20/10/2025

And naturally, Vietnamese literature must itself go along with this aspiration.

From ancient times to the present, literature, whether poetry or prose, in order to survive and to rise above, must write about human destiny. Humans must be the central theme of literature, and creators must nurture the desire to express human destiny in the deepest depths from many perspectives.

In other words, what remains with time is deeply attached to people, it has been so since ancient times and will be so forever.

1. The great poet of the Tang Dynasty - Du Fu, wrote poems about human destiny, through his own personal destiny, and his poems have remained for thousands of years.

For example, in the poem Mao ốc vi thu phong số phá ca (Song of a Thatched Cottage Destroyed by the Autumn Wind) written in 761, Du Fu wrote: “I wish for a house with a thousand rooms/All over the world, poor scholars are happy/Wind and rain do not shake, as solid as a stone table/Alas! When will that house stand tall before my eyes/Only my hut will be ruined, I will freeze to death!” (Translated by poet Khương Hữu Dũng).

From his own personal pain and fate, Du Fu opened up the pain of the whole community and his people. And he wished that he had a “house with thousands of rooms” enough to protect “the whole world” from the rain and sun, so that “poor scholars would all be happy”. From personal fate, opening up the fate of people in general, that is Du Fu’s poetry.

Many of us do not forget the wonderful short story by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov, the title of which says it all - The Fate of Man.

The story was written in 1957, about a Soviet Red Army soldier after the Great Patriotic War. He was discharged but did not return to his hometown but went to a friend's village, worked as a truck driver transporting goods to the districts and transporting wheat to the city. And he met a child orphaned by the war.

Feeling sorry for the lonely child, he adopted the child. But fate still did not give him peace. He lost his job and the two of them went to a far away horizon to find a new life...

The writer watched the father and son gradually disappear into the distance, his heart filled with anguish. The short story was born like that, a short story - very short, but classified by readers as a "little epic" genre.

Mikhail Sholokhov was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965 for his entire body of work, in which his short story The Fate of Man is widely cited for its humanity.

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The work "The 5th Division Military Congress" by artist Huynh Phuong Dong was created in 1965.

2. When I wrote the epic poem Those Who Went to the Sea, my first epic poem, I considered it as my process of self-awareness about the people, about my comrades, about what I received when joining the common fight.

There is a verse in this epic poem, when writing about the messenger boys, I remembered the torch from Danko's heart shining in the night forest. But they were not alone like Danko's torch.

Alone in the forest at night, the liaison boys were always confident and fearless because they knew they were surrounded by comrades. When singing about the forests of the East, the liaison boy felt that the forest trees were also his comrades - "at that time, the little liaison boy, while marking the path, softly sang/the song of the forests of the East/where we have lived for many years/pushing back each patch of darkness/cutting off the ghostly vines/cherishing each streak of green sunlight".

I learned from the liaison officer, when I felt the comradeship through each song, each breath. The reality of the battle gave me that awareness, something that I did not have before I actually entered the battlefield - "song and fire/ I walk in the light of everyone" (Those who go to the sea). To be able to walk firmly in the light of everyone, one must know that one is only a very small part of the whole, and must be close to that whole.

I remember, at that time, most of the liaisons were very young, but their battlefield experience was very old. The liaisons in the Eastern battlefield had the hardships of the Eastern, the liaisons in the Central and Southwestern battlefields had the dangers of the fiercely contested areas there. I was fortunate to have experienced many types of battlefields and had the opportunity to be guided by many liaisons.

“I walk in the light of everyone” means walking in the light of my teammates, of my guides, and more broadly, I am walking among and with the people, being raised and protected by the people. Perhaps something like this can only happen in Vietnam.

3. With steadfast faith, hope, and a clear goal, people can completely overcome all difficulties, including the devastation and destruction of war, to build a free, peaceful, and happy life. And with the desire to create for the nation, writers can do well the task of "secretary of the times".

Many Vietnamese poets and writers have lived through wars, directly participated in wars, and have understood what war is, so they cannot ignore the theme of “human destiny” in their works. Talent will determine how long the work will live, but you have to write it before thinking about how long it will last.

Or as Mikhail Sholokhov advised-Just write, whatever will be will be!


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