Abstract

Symbolic Suicide: Nguyen Tuong Tam

Year: 1963 Source: Newsweek, v.62, (1963), p.43-44 SIEC No: 19840831

This article is a biographical account of Nguyen Tuong Tam, a South Vietnamese author & poet who died by suicide in the 1960s. The article provides information about his life, political ideology, & suicide. A discussion of the contemporary political conflict between the existing regime under President Diem & the communist Viet Cong party is included. (SC)