THE DESIRE TO MOVE AND LOOK FOR TRUE SELF IN “KE XONG ROI DI” BY NGUYEN BINH PHUONG

Abstract

One of the essence of humanity is "potential" (Heideger). Man is capable, always projecting and accepting to commit himself to being human, free to become human as he wants. "I choose and I accomplish" (Sartre). Vietnamese novels in the early 21st century which assert that man is the center, the center of human desires. The writer lets the character live in a natural way, purifying the unctuous shell, eradicate vainglory and brings the man to the self in exile irrationalness in order to live as human nature. If being thrown into circumstances is the size of the past, and the projection is the size of the future then the present is the commitment to choose the possibility to authenticate the personality. This is the spirit of existentialism and of existentialist literature that present in the story of “Ke xong roi di” (Meaning: let’s finish telling before leaving) of Nguyen Binh Phuong. Hereby, not only the characters but also the disordered human realm are on the move that display in this novel. The desire to move will be a manifestation that people find themselves from the inferiority complex of dead and abandonment.