During and after the debate between Art for art’ sakists and Art for life’ sakists from 1935 to 1939, the critic Thieu Son and other critics and writers who are influenced by European Romanticism were addressed as “aestheticist” and “bourgeoisie” for their praise of romantic literature. Recently, there have been several studies which aim to clear these unfair receptions and return the proper positions to them in Vietnamese literature and criticism. Continuing these efforts, from the perspectives of discourse studies, this article will explain Thieu Son’s literary conception from its relationship with the nineteenth century Romanticist sincerity in European literature. | Thieu Son s literary conception seen from the perspectives of western romanticist sincerity
