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Vietnamese Writer Hồ Biểu Chánh and His Adaptation of Dostoevsky's «Crime and Punishment»

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2021, №2(51), 284-296

 
Annotation: Hồ Biểu Chánh (1884–1958) was a novelist, playwright, translator, scholar, who was considered as one of pioneers of modern Vietnamese novel. In his literary legacy there were many novels adapted from foreign literature, and «A Despondent Man» (Người thất chí) published in 1938 was among them. The plot of this novel was borrowed from Dostoevsky's «Crime and Punishment». This article gives some comparisons between «A Despondent Man» and «Crime and Punishment» to show how the Vietnamese writer perceived Dostoevsky's socio-psychological and socio-philosophical novel and based on its plot to create his own work in Vietnamese language.

Keywords: Hồ Biểu Chánh, Vietnamese literature, Russian literature, borrowing, «A Despondent Man», F. M. Dostoevsky, «Crime and Punishment», adaptation