Truyền Kỳ Mạn Lục

The ''Truyền kỳ mạn lục'' (傳奇漫錄, "Casual Records of Transmitted Strange Tales") is a 16th-century Vietnamese historical text, in part a collection of legends, by Nguyễn Dữ (阮餘) composed in Chữ Hán. The collection was translated into French by UNESCO in 1962.

Components

''Truyền kì mạn lục'' contains 20 stories ( vi, truyện), tales ( vi, lục) and records ( vi, ký) in 4 volumes, each contains 5 works:

Volume 1

* '' The Record at Xiang King's Temple''
* '' The Story of the Virtuous Wife in Khoái Châu''
* '' The Story of the Cotton Tree''
* '' The Tale of the Tea Boy Reincarnated''
* '' The Record of the Strange Encounter in the Western Camp''

Volume 2

* '' The Tale of the Lawsuit in Dragon Court''
* '' The Record of the Wrongdoing of Đào Thị''
* '' The Tale of the Judge of Tản Viên Temple''
* '' The Tale of Từ Thức Marrying a Goddess''
* '' The Tale of Phạm Tử Hư Visiting Heaven''

Volume 3

* '' The Tale of the Demon in Xương Giang''
* '' The Tale of the Conversation with a Woodcutter at Na Mountain''
* '' The Tale of the Abandoned Pagoda in Đông Triều''
* '' The Story of Thúy Tiêu''
* '' The Record of the Night Party in Đà Giang''

Volume 4

* '' The Story of the Woman in Nam Xương''
* '' The Story of Lý General''
* '' The Story of Lệ Nương''
* '' The Record of the Poetry Talk in Kim Hoa''
* '' The Tale of the Yaksha General''

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{{Vietnamese myth long
Vietnamese history texts
Lê dynasty texts
Vietnamese short story collections
Chinese-language literature of Vietnam