Jaipur Literature Festival | To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other, Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Shawn Wong
In To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, Pulitzer Prize–winner Viet Thanh Nguyen blends memoir and literary criticism in a meditation on exile, identity, and the ethics of storytelling. Drawing on his Norton Lectures, Nguyen explores the lives and works of Melville, Fitzgerald, Ellison, and Kingston, while revisiting his journey from war-torn Vietnam to America, exploring how literature shapes and distorts the stories of outsiders. Weaving together writing, history and personal memory, Nguyen presents a compelling vision of political and cultural solidarity.