Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-344) and index.
"English translations of works by Võ Phiến": pages [329]-330.
The man from Bình Định -- Weighing the political and the personal in Võ Phiến's early fiction -- A passion for concrete detail : Võ Phiến's narrative technique -- Developing an aesthetics of the common in tùy bút essays -- An exile in his own country -- An exile in America -- Coping with the pace of life and the death of literature -- Contradictions and possibilities