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About Dumb Luck
Dumb Luck is a 1936 novel by the Vietnamese novelist Vũ Trọng Phụng. The novel is a contemporary critique on the Vietnamese late colonial society, satirizing the rising bourgeoisie. The main character of the story, Red-haired Xuân, himself a part of the lower class of society, was able to work his way up through the social ladder, quickly associating with the upper class connections and individuals through cunning works; all thanks to the then-popular Westernization social movement among the Hanoian petite bourgeoisie class in the 1920s. This movement is portrayed as immoral, in stark contrast to existing Vietnamese moral foundations.
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