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

folktale Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed. There is no standard definition, as anthropologists have used va ...

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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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