Manifestations of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) in the character Kien in the novel “The Sorrow of War” and selected connections with American literature and cinema

Abstract

This article investigates the characteristics of Vietnamese horror fiction authors  in the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of author typology on such dimensions as: the foundations of genre formation, artistic thinking, national characteristics, conceptions of beauty, perceptions of reality and horror, the relationship between horror and realism, modes of representing realityand specific artistic techniques employed by horror fiction writers. Through these analyses and interpretations, the article highlights the typological features of modern horror fiction authors, thereby providing deeper insights into their creative works and the contributions of this literary subfield to the overall depiction of reality in Vietnamese literature during the first half of the twentieth century.