''Thằng Bờm'' (Bờm the Fool, Bờm the village idiot) is a Vietnamese

folktale A folktale or folk tale is a folklore genre that typically consists of a story passed down from generation to generation orally. Folktale may also refer to: Categories of stories * Folkloric tale from oral tradition * Fable (written form of the a ...

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The Thằng Bờm stories, along with poems like the satirical '' Truyện Trê Cóc'', were among the folktales reanalysed by socialist scholars.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."

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