流星雨

by Sanmao, 三毛

《流星雨》是三毛的一部演讲录。她在台湾进行了逾百场演讲，直面读者、听众和记者，讲述与荷西的爱情、游历世界的经历，以及对写作本身的体悟，曾获得巨大反响。本书还收录了三毛谈《水浒》中武松与潘金莲的段落，很有自己的见解，读来别是一番滋味。因为频繁的演讲，三毛遇到了很多生命中擦肩而过的陌生人，这些可能永不再相见的人则是流星，只要带着心灵的眼睛以及爱世界、爱人类的赞赏心情，便每时每刻都可以遇见流星雨。她以一支笔坚持看守个人文字上的简单和朴素；从遥远的撒哈拉到敦煌戈壁，她不随波逐流，也不诠释人生，只做生活的见证者；她是我们心中浪漫、洒脱、真性情的永远的三毛，永恒的传奇。《流星雨》是三毛的演讲精选集，亦收录她的两篇说书和三段采访，展现了读者所熟悉的“三毛”之外不一样的人生。海报：骆驼为什么要哭泣我写的书不多，一共五本，这五本书的书名是《撒哈拉的故事》、《雨季不再来》、《稻草人手记》、《哭泣的骆驼》、《温柔的夜》。我自己检讨了一下，也一直记得一位作家对我说过：“你千万不要在题目里透露文章的秘密。”这句话说得非常好，假如你把文章的内容，直接地由题目表现出来，别人一看就已知道里面写的是什么，猜出你所写的内容，那便不够精彩了。举几个比较喜欢的例子。譬如说，在我写家庭生活中怎样煮饭给先生吃的事情，我给它取了一个很糟糕的名字，叫《中国饭店》，这题目是失败的，因为没有内容，没有曲折，也没有说出中国饭店的秘密，可以说那是一个失败的题目。后来，《读者文摘》将这篇稿子摘录进去以后，我将它改成《沙漠中的饭店》，这是第一篇，是一个不算成功的题目。我将自己用各种奇奇怪怪的方法在沙漠中替人看病的经过写了下来，这时想到了一句成语叫《悬壶济世》，已经有一点进步了。我也曾写沙漠的朋友如何结婚的事情，因为新娘只有十岁，所以取了一个名字叫《娃娃新娘》，还是不好，因为题目已透露文章的内容。又有一次，到沙漠探险，掉进了泥淖里去，没有办法出来，我就想是不是要写一篇《沙漠历险记》呢？后来又想到俄国有首曲子叫《荒山之夜》，这个题目我觉得可以，因读者猜不出要写的是什么，而是由文章内慢慢地告诉你，才明白这里发生了什么事情，题目是看不出来的。在沙漠里开车，警察常找我麻烦，因为我是那里唯一的中国人，而且他们也知道我没有驾驶执照，我还在那里跑来跑去。避免警察抓我的唯一方法就是去考驾驶执照，考了之后，便想要写一个叫《沙漠考执照记》，这也不好，本来是一个很平凡的经历，里面写如何考驾驶执照，想了很久，《圣经》里有一句话，说雅各在做梦时候，有一个天堂的梯子下来，让他上去，他上了几格又下来了，大概是这样的一件事情，使我联想到考驾驶执照从报名、到学、到考“笔试”、到“场内考试”、到“路试”，这都是一级一级的梯子，所以这个考驾驶执照的故事，本来是一个最平凡的故事，却取了一个很好的名字叫做《天梯》，读者还不晓得我到底要写什么。一看登出《天梯》，《天梯》它到底要写些什么？你这样给他一个引诱时，他会忍不住地看下去，看到底为止，为什么它要叫天梯？这是间接式地引起好奇心，然后再让他看看内容是什么，看完了内容，读者不会觉得天梯和考驾驶执照不合适，因为，里面有解释。又一次，我去看沙漠当地的人如何洗澡，因为他们往往很

200 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1987

About the author

Sanmao (Chinese: 三毛; March 26, 1943 – January 4, 1991) was a Taiwanese writer and translator. Her works range from autobiographical writing, travel writing, and reflective novels, to translations of Spanish-language comic strips. She studied philosophy and taught German before becoming a career writer.

Born as Chen Mao-ping (陳懋平), her pen name was adopted from the main character of Zhang Leping's most famous work, Sanmao. In English, she was also known as Echo or Echo Chan, the first name she used in Latin script, after the eponymous Greek nymph.

Sanmao was born in Chongqing to Chen Siqing, a lawyer, and Miao Jinlan. She had an older sister, Chen Tianxin. Her parents were devout Christians. Her family was from Zhejiang. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the family moved to Nanjing. When she was six, her family moved to Taiwan because of the Communist takeover of mainland China. She disliked the lack of freedom in Taiwan's educational system, in which strict restrictions were placed on students.

As a child, she developed an early interest in literature and was exposed to famous Chinese writers, such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Bing Xin, Lao She, and Yu Dafu. She read works such as The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote, and Gone with the Wind. She was particularly interested in Dream of the Red Chamber and read it as a Grade 5 student during class. When asked what she wanted to become when she was older, she responded that she wanted to marry a great artist, specifically Pablo Picasso.

Due to her preoccupation with reading, Sanmao's grades suffered in middle school, particularly in mathematics. After a distressing incident when a teacher drew black circles around her eyes and humiliated her in front of her classmates, Sanmao stopped attending school. Her father taught her English and classical literature at home and hired tutors to teach her piano and painting.

In 1962, at age 19, Sanmao published her first essay. Sanmao studied philosophy at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, with the goal of "[finding] the solution to problems in life." There, she dated a fellow student; however, becoming "disillusioned with romance," she moved to Madrid, Spain at age 20 and began studying at the University of Madrid.

Sanmao later moved to Germany, where she intensively studied the German language, sometimes up to 16 hours per day. Within nine months, she earned a qualification to teach German and began studying ceramics.

At age 26, Sanmao returned to Taiwan. She was engaged to a teacher from Germany, but he died from a heart attack before they could marry. Sanmao returned to Madrid and began teaching English at a primary school.

In 1976 she published the autobiographical The Stories of the Sahara, which was on her experiences living in the Sahara together with her Spanish husband Jose, who she first met in Madrid and later married in 1973 while living together in the then Spanish-controlled Western Sahara. Part travelog and part memoir, it was an account of life and love in the desert and established Sanmao as an autobiographical writer with a unique voice and perspective. Following the book's immense success in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, her early writings were collected into a book, published under the title Gone With the Rainy Season. She continued to write, and her experiences in the Sahara and the Canary Islands were published in several more books.

In 1979 Jose drowned while diving. In 1980 she returned to Taiwan, and in November 1981, she traveled to Central and South America on commission from Taiwanese publishers. These experiences were recorded in subsequent writings. From 1981 to 1984, she taught and lectured at her alma mater, Chinese Culture University, in Taiwan. After this point, she decided to dedicate herself fully to writing.

Sanmao's books deal mainly with her own experiences studying and living abroad. They were extremely well received not only in Taiwan, but also in China, and they remain

Reviews

[Yifan Liu · Rating 3 out of 5]

三毛是我最喜欢的作家之一，前面一部分讲座挺有意思。但是后面有一段说水浒的就挺无聊.........主要是我这个人对水浒兴趣缺缺

[Dong Luo · Rating 5 out of 5]

下午的时候才看到三毛接受采访的视频，果然跟我想象中的声音一般温柔和甜美，笔下的生活有好有坏，她的生活也是有着说不出的忧郁感，但是每一个字都充满着她的内心和灵魂。好喜欢说书那一部分，太美好了