The comedy in Nguyen Huy Thiep’s short stories

Abstract

The comedy is one of the basic categories of aesthetics. In the fields of literature and art, it also plays a very important role in perceiving the genuine aesthetic values for people and life. The presence of the comedy in Nguyen Huy Thiep’s short stories also has its own features, which is worth our attention. The article focuses on clarifying the writer’s artistic conception of the comedy, the unique expressions of the comedy, and evaluates the nature and aesthetic effects of the comedy to bring multidimensional points of view about this aesthetic category in Nguyen Huy Thiep’s short stories.