In the essay collection Why do we love... , a thin volume of just over 300 medium-sized pages, Hien Trang shows a pure love for art with passion, admiration, and utmost humility.
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"Why do we love..." A question that has no beginning and no end, is the opportunity for this 9X author to explain how she fell in love with Wong Kar-wai, Leslie Cheung, Haruki Murakami, Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Monet, Ozu, The Beatles...
Writer Hien Trang at the talk show on the morning of June 3
The book has a rambling structure, discussing literature, painting, cinema, music and choosing the most representative faces in each field to comment on, pointing out each good thing, the uniqueness in their spiritual world. Right from the beginning of the book, she immediately affirmed the way she chose to write about these artists: all stem from a simple, pure love that she has for them, nothing more. And all the artists she chose meet at the greatest common point: a great love for humanity.
Writer Hien TrangIn her article about Murakami, she "antitheses" herself: "I can immediately name 200 writers better than Murakami, they make me speechless, make me wonder, make me enlightened, make me admire, make me shake, make me overwhelmed, make me cry. Murakami doesn't do all of those things, at least to me. He just makes me love." She reads Murakami in her own way: healing through his own artistic world. Murakami's literature is healing literature, because she sympathizes a lot with the images he creates, no matter what, they always move forward.
In the meeting with Hien Trang on the morning of June 3 organized by Phanbook in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, young writer Huynh Trong Khang, who recently released a book called Lonely Moon Pool , talked about his love, Hien Trang's love. He said that one person's love is not the same as another's. With art, love is even more different. An artist, even though his works have created an "earthquake" in the literary world, in the world, and won a series of prestigious awards, but readers who enjoy those works have different artistic feelings. The way you love is different from the way I love.
"Because to hate is also to love"
Hien Trang's latest book - Why do we love...
Hien Trang admits that she is a loving person. Therefore, she loves all artists who love people with a big heart. And their works beautify time and life.
That's why I love Leslie Cheung and Wong Kar-wai, because their works are golden times, things from the past that evoke the vibrations of love.
The female author was amazed by the beauty of Leslie Cheung that seemed to "haunt" every frame: "He was terribly lonely and when he was lonely, he was terribly beautiful. His loneliness was like a song written in an ancient language of migratory birds, no one wanted to translate it into another language..."
Writer Hien TrangShe talked about her passion when watching Ozu, one of the greats of Japanese cinema: "I watch Ozu not like watching a normal movie, with plot, with drama, with the eagerness to know what-next-is-next, with a moment of enlightenment, with a lingering feeling, with a dream". One must cherish the beauty in Ozu's movies very much, must be very respectful and bowing, then Hien Trang, as she confessed, every year on the last day, turns on Ozu's movies to watch. And it becomes her annual ritual.
During the conversation, Hien Trang talked about the cinema of Tran Anh Hung and Pham Thien An - who recently won an award at Cannes, although she did not mention it in this book - that their films are also very beautiful. She confided that when Tran Anh Hung made the film Vinh Cuu , people thought he was out of date, because Tran Anh Hung's beauty was always gentle, beautifying everything, seemingly stagnant, not provocative because this filmmaker had eliminated most of the dramatic elements to create frames that remained calm with time; with Pham Thien An, she commented that this director had chosen a path for himself to make films, and everything was beautiful because he had created a face, a direction for himself to immerse himself in.
Because she is a person who only loves and loves, Hien Trang shared that she cannot watch Kim Ki Duk's movies, because he is so hateful and hates people. His movies are like revenge on life. On this point, a reader at the talk added, perhaps Kim Ki Duk does not hate life, his movies are thorny and worldly, but that does not mean he hates people, he creates works with hidden beauty, after all, "because hating is also loving".
Author Hien Trang signs books and interacts with readers
Write like play
Hien Trang is a critic, a storyteller, a wanderer who writes about beauty in this book, and no matter what "role related to words" - let me quote the comment of critic Tran Ngoc Hieu - to see that she is "a person in love, enjoying the most beautiful things that humans create - ART". Therefore, although the things she writes are academic and abstract beauty, she writes as if playing, with a gentle style, full of private emotions, "using our soul to understand other people's souls".
And as an older reader commented at the talk, Hien Trang's essay writing style is not "boring" or dogmatic. Her writing technique is very good: capturing a portrait, choosing the most important details, and leisurely commenting on it with all the passion.
"I'm not confident about my memory, so when I write about something, I often have to look it up and read it again," she shared. But the accuracy of the information is just superficial. What's more important is that she touches the reader's heart with her maturity and emotional authenticity when writing.
Author Hien Trang was born in 1993. Since 2015, she has regularly released works such as The Painting of a Nude Girl and a Red Violin - 2015, Lost Youth and My Books - 2016, Dream of Wandering on the Withered Grass - 2018, Under the Night Eaves, Strange Guests (2020)...
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