In The Mourning Diary, famous French critic Roland Barthes wrote, `A writer is someone who plays with his mother’s body, trying to honor it, beautify it.`
Born into a farming family in Saigon in 1988, at the age of two, Ocean Vuong and his family immigrated to the United States, first living in a refugee camp in the Philippines and then receiving political asylum and coming to Hartford, United States.
It is the memory of a strange boy finding a connection with a strange new country, in which he has become almost invisible.
The Vietnam War marked the memory of Dog Pu’s mother’s grandmother, leaving trauma on their behavior.
The mother-child relationship in A Moment of Brilliance in the Human World is a very complex relationship: full of love, but also full of violence;
Puppy repeatedly quotes Barthes in his letter.
Vuong’s story is the story that every child of war has, that’s why many readers see themselves in Vuong, feel that he speaks for them, causing sympathy with many readers.
A Glimpse of My Brilliance in the Human World
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