红拂夜奔

时代三部曲 #3.2

by Wang Xiaobo, 王小波

Based on the romantic story of general Li Jing and a kept servant Hong Fu, the author combines modern elements and ancient and current figures and events, telling a story of escape. The author keeps going through from ancient and contemporary situations regardless of the restrictions of historical records and existing figure and plots, and creates a very open and attractive model of fiction in his distinctive language. 作者借用隋末大将军李靖和杨索家妓红拂私奔的风流逸事为蓝本，融合现代元素，把古今人物事件熔为一炉，讲述了一个有关逃离的故事。作者在古今语境里不断穿越往还，不受史料与既有人物形象、故事情节的束缚，以自成一体的小说语言，创造了一种极具开放性与诱惑力的小说模式。

Genres: Fiction, China, Chinese Literature, Literature

308 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Wang Xiaobo (Chinese: 王小波) was a Chinese writer who became famous after his death.

Wang Xiaobo on paper-republic.org.

Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory. He met Li Yinhe in 1977, who was working as an editor for "Guangming Daily", and she later became his wife. He was accepted by Renmin University of China in 1978 where he studied economics and trade and got his Bachelor's Degree. He received his Master's Degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. After he returned to China, he began to teach at Peking University and Renmin University of China. He quit his job as a college lecturer in 1992, and became a freelance writer. On April 11, 1997 he died suddenly of heart disease at his apartment.

Reviews

[Q · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just brilliant.

Science + art academic training had some wonderfully weird chemistry there.

[Chaniya Yang · Rating 3 out of 5]

《红拂夜奔》是一本近乎透明的书，我称之为“说得明白”，甚而有时“说得太明白”，这一点不可避免地导向浅易甚至有些粗俗的语言，也常常容易为人诟病。

可王小波不在乎，许多时候，他恰是知道有这样如数的读者，所以他说得更明白：
“对于一些书来说，有趣是它存在的理由；对于另一些书来说，有趣是它应达到的标准。”
关于这本书，他说：“本书叙事风格……更像一本历史书而不太像一本小说。这正是作者的本意。”
在结尾，他以王二的口吻说：“过去无趣现在也无趣，不喜欢有趣的事而且表里如一。所以到目前为止，我只能强忍着绝望活在世界上。”

不如说，这本书的戏仿意味太浓，它并非戏仿某部特别的文本，而是谐谑地写着整个社会系统，而这样的系统在今天仍然存在。恰恰是这些“荒唐”的细节，才体现出他对大唐那一特定时期的思考，这些思考被以浅易的话语转译出来（或许就像王二转译李卫公的谜语一般），跨过特定时代的局限，成为对权力本身的戏谑。

他不编织一个凄苦的故事，也不灌输任何生硬的说教，在我看来，也许这本书的文字更像是加长版微博，或者是街坊邻居间的闲言碎语。这种不太像小说也不太像史书的形式本身，何尝不是一种当代的反抗？

[Estekke · Rating 5 out of 5]

她心里想的是：不管领导上怎么想，想要死还是办得到。这也就是说，红拂这座时钟走到了这里，眼看就要弦尽停摆了。红拂最后的时刻，眼前真的出现了九颗金星。那些星星嗡嗡地飞着，好像一些铜做的大黄蜂，所到之处都留下刺痛。这些金星有时候飞进心底，在那里向深处猛钻，有时候飞到心外，几乎消失在视野之外。这个时候她自己也变成了一根飞旋的柱子，在震耳的轰鸣中移动着。这一切都沉浸在墨一样的黑暗中。这样的死亡和一个无性、无智、无趣的人生相比，也不知哪个更可怕。

[Yadi Yang · Rating 5 out of 5]

荒诞与现实交错，感觉每个人都像是被锤了的牛，一天一天低下头去。
写作风格和文笔都很喜欢，个人感觉王小波已经实现了他对杜拉斯《情人》的评价

[Holly · Rating 3 out of 5]

kind of miscellaneous.
The two worlds writer constructed are closely connected to reality，which are convincing and imaginative.love the ending.

[Wen · Rating 4 out of 5]

王小波这本书更是现实讽刺和偶发臆想的结合，一面上王二愣头愣脑地终于证明了费尔马猜想成了系里的人瑞，一面上红尘三侠逃出洛阳城进入另一种求死不得的生活。这二者连结在“想入非非”、“领导上”、“头头”和“人瑞”等问题上。我觉得青铜时代三篇小说虽然形制相近，讨论的内容却不同。这篇讲的是体制的荒诞与聪明人的末路。比另外两部更加天马行空。前一半展开很精彩，可惜收尾收束有点拖沓。

[Stella · Rating 3 out of 5]

学生时代读觉得很妙，现在重读就没那味儿啦

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful story, exquisite writing.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

高中看了红拂夜奔，感觉很怪异有趣！补一下王小波的书，喜欢万寿寺，红拂夜奔，寻找无双，唐人故事。黄金时代也很喜欢，还有绿毛水怪。（有首摇滚叫唐人也挺好听的

[Zijia Hu · Rating 5 out of 5]

my all time favorite

[Erin Li · Rating 5 out of 5]

意识流小说 也是半年前看的 还能记得的感受就是：费尔马定理这个东西，不管证不出来还是能证出来，都是体制的锅

[Xianjing · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story ueses fantastic, ridiculous fun to express the desire of freedom.

[Doreen Xiong · Rating 5 out of 5]

自由像是食物，你可以靠打点滴活着，活一辈子，却还是理所当然地想要举起筷子。没什么汹涌的情感，仅仅只是，没有自由的人生难道不奇怪吗？

[Zhixuan Zhang · Rating 4 out of 5]

幽默又有趣，一言难尽的感觉。

[Ethan J · Rating 3 out of 5]

我都能想象王小波写这书是如何想到哪写到哪的。。。努力地看完发现这个小说真不知在写什么，相当地文艺，穿插着各种插科打诨，荒诞不经的意识流，并没有看出哪里有趣了

[Fay Yan]

去年看的竟想不起来是写了个甚。

[Dumbo · Rating 2 out of 5]

不能完全看懂，只能理解部分嘲讽，但get不到乐趣。跳过前三章看了1/4和最后一章。最后一章有点意思。

[Wayne Liberty · Rating 5 out of 5]

怪诞，荒诞，又处处反应现实
even today，书里的一切都仿佛在周围演绎

王小波的想象力太丰富了，看的时候不断想起看过的日本意识流动画，红辣椒，四叠半神话大系。

书里整体充满了黑色幽默，以及comedy和tragedy交织，不知道是该哭还是该笑那就笑吧

最后，fuck this dehumanizing system

[芒果小酪 · Rating 5 out of 5]

小波是我的精神导师。