The ềnkỳmạnlụTruyền kỳ mạn lục (傳奇漫錄, "Casual Records of Transmitted Strange Tales") is a 16th-century Vietnamese historical text, in part a collection of legends, by Nguyễn Dữ (阮餘) composed in Chữ Hán. The collection was translated into French by UNESCO in 1962.

Components

Truyền kì mạn lục contains 20 stories (), tales () and records () in 4 volumes, each contains 5 works:

Truyền kỳ mạn lục

Volume 1

The Record at Xiang King's Temple

The Story of the Virtuous Wife in Khoái Châu

The Story of the Cotton Tree

The Tale of the Tea Boy Reincarnated

The Record of the Strange Encounter in the Western Camp

Volume 2

The Tale of the Lawsuit in Dragon Court

The Record of the Wrongdoing of Đào Thị

The Tale of the Judge of Tản Viên Temple

The Tale of Từ Thức Marrying a Goddess

The Tale of Phạm Tử Hư Visiting Heaven

Volume 3

The Tale of the Demon in Xương Giang

The Tale of the Conversation with a Woodcutter at Na Mountain

The Tale of the Abandoned Pagoda in Đông Triều

The Story of Thúy Tiêu

The Record of the Night Party in Đà Giang

Volume 4

The Story of the Woman in Nam Xương

The Story of Lý General

The Story of Lệ Nương

The Record of the Poetry Talk in Kim Hoa

The Tale of the Yaksha General

References

External links

Vietnamese history texts

Lê dynasty texts

Vietnamese short story collections

Chinese-language literature of Vietnam

Truyền kỳ mạn lục