When young people think differently
Although it is only the second volume, it has already introduced a writing style and a sense of literature that seems to have been cherished for a long time, waiting for its first appearance.
When young people think differently
In Le Khai Viet's world, history may be past but it is never over.
People keep going back and forth between those two lines of historical data as if squeezing between the narrow door separating reality and dreams to search, but searching for what?
The thirteen short stories in When Young People Think Differently present different situations, in different timelines, but all characters seem to stand before the abyss of the past, wondering what is below the abyss, and what is on the other side.
The world these characters live in is steeped in doubt, in a hazy, virtual fog, in a geographical area that, although it certainly exists, feels like it could drift into the unreal at any moment.
In the unreal world, people are trapped, prisoners of the past and constantly cry out for escape.
The saying "when young people think differently" is not only a regret for a lost time but also a regret for young people who have no youth. Fruits ripen early, dreams lost, no second chance to return.
Tragedy is always illusion
In the book March Flight, it can be seen that the author uses many photographs printed with his stories.
These photos are sometimes the main source of inspiration, sometimes just the background. Sometimes they are illustrations, as if to prove the "authenticity" of the story the author tells. The book When Young People Think Differently does not include such images, although Le Khai Viet is fully capable of doing so.
The only reality on the page is language, language builds dreams, language recreates space, language becomes the only tool the author has to hold on to reality. Even though it is an emotional, threatening reality, where the sky is "unsettlingly blue" (story When young people think differently).
Le Khai Viet's characters have names or are anonymous, sometimes they are reduced to the symbols J, K (the story To the left and to the right and...) like cards in the hands of fate.
The author realized that "Tragedy is always deceiving oneself as an outsider, as a person on the sidelines" and to deny that delusion, the characters embark on a journey with an eager heart despite doubts.
Le Khai Viet's imagination is rooted in life itself. We can still see current issues such as environmental pollution and epidemics. In today's things, yesterday is hidden. Through writing, Le Khai Viet wants to live fully and understand this life to the fullest.
It must be reiterated that this is the work of a person who is no longer young. The short stories contain the contemplation of an experienced person and the bewilderment of a curious explorer.
Therefore, Le Khai Viet's stories may not be fresh but promising, like the shepherd in the story The Gods and the story that happened on the other side of the steppe: "And the shepherd woke up. Around him was darkness. Under his feet was the desert. But behind him was the world."
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