Trở lại vấn đề quan hệ “Kim Vân Kiều truyện” và “Truyện Kiều” từ tư liệu Hán Nôm Việt Nam

Abstract

In Preface of Kim Van Kieu Thanh Tam Tai Tu 金雲翹青心才子– a Vietnamese translation of the novel The Tale of Jin Yun Qiao (金雲翹傳Kim Van Kieu Truyen) – published in 1971 by The Department of Culture, Saigon, the translator To Nam Nguyen Dinh Diem suggested that the novel Kim Van Kieu Truyen was not wrote by a Chinese writer but could be made by a Vietnamese Confucian scholar based on Nguyen Du’s story as Doan truong tan thanh (A New Cry from a Broken Heart – the official title of The Tale of Kieu). This suggestion seems to have been proved incorrect by many textual studies inside and outside Vietnam. However, the topic has been revived recently. Some new obtained documents from Japan being introduced in my recent articles prove that The Tale of Jin Yun Qiao came into The Tale of Kieu previously. To strengthen my opinion on the topic, this article provides a literature review of the eighteenth and nineteenth century Sino-Nom documents which many Vietnamese Confucian scholars mentioned that The Tale of Kieu had been wrote based on The Tale of Jin Yun Qiao.