Thằng Bờm Explained

Thằng Bờm (Bờm the Fool, Bờm the village idiot) is a Vietnamese folktale character.^[1]

Content

The Thằng Bờm stories, along with poems like the satirical Truyện Trê Cóc, were among the folktales reanalysed by socialist scholars.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Mille et un proverbes p22 Vân Hoà - 2011 " de thằng Bờm, de Bờm l'idiot du village,"
2. Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past 2002 p270 "Writers such as Ngô Quân Miện, Ngọc Lân, Nguyễn Hồng Phong, Ninh Viết Giao, Trần Hữu Chí, Trương Chính, and Văn Tân debated the meaning of the folktales Thằng Bờm and Truyện Trê Cóc."