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爱你就像爱生命(王小波精装文集)

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王小波书信集。收录了王小波生前从未发表过的与李银河的“两地书”,以及婚后他与其他朋友的书信往来,是迄今王小波*完整、*全面的一部书信集,是一部感动国人二十年的爱情绝唱。其中不仅有热切、坦诚的情感表白,还有彼此对于书籍、诗歌乃至社会的看法,闪耀着理想与爱情的火花,令人动容。

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王小波,1952年5月13日出生于北京,1968-1972年在山东牟平插队,后做民办教师,1972-1973年北京牛街教学仪器厂工人,1974-1982年中国人民大学贸易经济系学生,1982-1984年中国人民大学一分校教师,1984-1988年美国匹兹堡大学东亚研究中心研究生,获硕士学位。1988-1991年北京大学社会学所讲师,1991-1992年,中国人民大学会计系讲师。1992-1997年,自由撰稿人。1997年4月11日在北京逝世。被称为上个世纪九十年代中国最“另类”的作家,有评价说他是中国白话文的第一把手。其自由人文主义的立场和风格贯穿作品,“王小波文体”为无数青年仿效。“时代三部曲”是王小波作品的精华,其中以喜剧精神和幽默口吻,述说人类生存状况的荒谬故事,故事背景跨越各种年代,描写权力对创造欲望和人性需求的扭曲及压制,展示了知识分子在过去、现在和未来的命运,代表着王小波对文学的理解和他异于寻常的艺术水准。

王小波是中国最富创造性的作家,他是中国近半世纪的苦难和荒谬所结晶出来的天才。他的作品对我们生活中所有的荒谬和苦难作出最彻底的反讽刺。他还做了从来没有 王小波人想做和做也没才力做到的事:他唾弃中国现代文学那种“软”以及伤感和谄媚的传统,而秉承罗素、伯尔·卡尔维诺他们的批判、思考的精神,同时把这个传统和中国古代小说的游戏精神作了一个创造性的衔接。
  王小波的文学创作独特,富于想像力之余,却不乏理性精神,特别是他的“时代三部曲”。“时代三部曲”是由三部作品组成,分别是《黄金时代》、《白银时代》和《青铜时代》。在整个三部曲系列中,他以喜剧精神和幽默风格述说人类生存状况的荒谬故事,并透过故事描写权力对创造欲望和人性需求的扭曲及压制。至于故事背景则是跨越各种年代,展示中国知识分子的过去、现在和未来的命运。事实上,王小波最过人之处,无疑是随心所欲的穿梭古往今来的对话体叙述,并变换多种视角。
  表达手法方面,他擅于用汪洋恣肆的笔触描绘男欢女爱,言说爱情的动人美丽场景及势不可挡的威力。其成名作《黄金时代》,文学界的评誉甚高,中国社会科学出版社副编辑白桦更说:“《黄金时代》把以前所有写性小说全枪毙了!” 他的小说其实一直不大被出版社接受,也是因为文章中的性描写。其实这些文字不如贾平凹等人的小脚文学来的露骨,也不如其它人如莫言写的一样媚俗,只是比较直率罢了。在新时期文学领域中,性禁忌依然存在,这原因涉及到中国人的文化传统、社会心理、伦理价值等一些更深的层面。 抛开以上热点不谈,从没有看到有人用这样的笔法写作。在王的小说中,你可以看到,历来文学所谓真实性的规则全都被从容跨越了,他用了不同的修辞方式来写小说,大量的即兴发挥、错位的角色语体,寓庄于谐,寓文雅于粗野。读者可以在其中感受澎湃的想象力。
  王大多数以第一人称叙事,而这个人总是个生活中不顺心、受委屈的家伙。他幽默机敏,理性清澈,在内心状态和角色地位上最接近游离于主流的个体知识分子,这种性格的叙事者,也有易于辨识的语言风格。王本身是个“能文能武”的人,曾是个知识青年,上山下乡过,赴美深造过——他的本职是个名牌大学数学讲师,写这一手好文不输任何敢称大师的人,这种角色在中国文坛上也是绝无仅有的。王小波所虚构的艺术之美,以及他通过对现实世界的批评所传播的自由主义理念,已经在这个世界的文化和思想宝库中占据了一席之地。

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47 reviews6 followers
March 13, 2022
There is no plot whatsoever. The letters to his wife were beautiful and poetic, yet simplistic. The letters to his friends were boring. Overall, I found most letters to the same receiver repetitive and it quickly got boring.
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50 reviews10 followers
April 2, 2021
In the era of underdeveloped communications, letters are a necessary way to communicate. However, from today’s point of view, these remaining letters are not only of significance of the times, but also full of romance.
The first half of the book is about love, second half about life. In that era of innocence, there were very few people like Wang Xiaobo who confessed their love this affectionately. There is no gorgeous rhetoric, but all words came from the bottom of his heart. Wang Xiaobo’s love, Li Yinhe’s feminine characteristics, unique and delicate expression, coupled with shared suspicions, are vividly reflected in their love letters.
8 reviews
April 13, 2017
This is one of the best interesting books written by a husband to his wife. He used to say that everyone is a book and we all need to pick up the best one to read. His wife said that he was the most wonderful, interesting and pretty book she had ever seen. I think she is right. If you wanna see how a Chinese husband shows his emotion to his wife in a funny, romantic and meaningful way, you cannot miss it.
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107 reviews20 followers
November 17, 2019
有人想了解王小波这位作家,则不要从这一本书开始。对本人来说,《爱你像爱生命》有三个不足。
第一,虽然王小波对肉麻的行为猛烈地抨击,可是他每一封信自己的爱情说没玩,有点肉麻。应该说的是,有多封信李银河的想法比王小波尖锐多多。
第二,我之前不知道他是个计算机程序员,但是他提起的软件信息好无聊。
第三,本书信集里作家对文学、艺术的意见比较少,那好可惜;几封表现他的意见非常有意思的。
总的来说,你不是王小波陶醉粉丝的话,别浪费时间。
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30 reviews1 follower
May 3, 2017
看这本书的时候,我正深陷暗恋的漩涡无法自拔。王二比我幸福的是,他可以肆无忌惮的把藏匿在心里的爱说出去写出来,让他爱的人害羞也好幸福也罢。我比王二惨的是,我比他怂。喜欢不敢说,默默惩罚自己。一位足够喜欢,便终究感天动地女娲补天。我真是去他奶奶的大西瓜,真是够幼稚的。
更煞笔的是,“你好啊,李银河”这种非常美丽的酸腐桥段被我上演过了。不过收到的不是女神的娇羞,而是沉默。啊!沉默,沉默,不在沉默中爆发,就在沉默中死掉。所以,我的暗恋在王二你的见证下,在很多个夜晚伏特加的陪伴下,还有蕭敬騰的情歌里面,流眼泪流掉了。我也表白过,一次,那一天我真特么伟大。
像王二你长得这么丑的人,都能找到漂亮的姑娘。这只能证明一个结论了就,我比你还吃藕。
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26 reviews
February 6, 2019
一口气读完了,今天是为甜甜又涩涩的爱情感动的一天。唉,一辈子,能遇到心灵相通的人真的很难得啊。王小波和李银河的通信,有关于生活、情感、思想等的交流与探讨,某些语句真的是甜的可爱,笔墨间能看出二人的坦率与真诚。尤其是读到小波对于身处大学忙着整理实验器材而不能见到银河的烦躁,真的是能感觉到他的生气与郁闷。浪漫骑士·行吟诗人·自由思想者,这是李银河对王小波的总结,感觉从他的系列作品包括此书中也能看出些许来呢。
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115 reviews
June 28, 2025
“五线谱是偶然来的。你也是偶然来的。但愿我和你是一支唱不完的歌。”在给李银河的信中,王小波这样写道。将文字作为音符,将爱情作为韵律,封存、粘胶、寄送,然后完整地——将“我”这一首歌呈上给你,这也许是偶然得来的最佳仪式感。

《爱你就像爱生命》,是王小波的书信集。前半本写给他的爱人李银河,后半本写给其他人。放在同一本书中,这样的对比愈发鲜明。给他人,是严肃正经、社交辞令;给爱人,是言随意动、撒娇打滚。

王小波和李银河,都是好会表达爱意的人。他们不惮于将爱与想念直白热烈地划入纸页,也不掩饰自己的批评与怨言。与其说他们懂得爱情,不如说,他们懂得如何将爱情嵌入、融入生活的同心圆。

他说:“我会不爱你吗?不爱你?不会。爱你就像爱生命。算了。不胡扯。”

她说:“我们只是两个人,不是两家人,我们是两个在宇宙中游荡的灵魂,我们不愿孤独,走到一起来,别人与我们无关。”

李银河在接受许知远采访时谈及与王小波的分手,说觉得王小波长得太难看了,没别的原因。王小波说,你也不是那么好看。她说得,那行,就接着谈吧。

这个颇为有趣生动的细节,也许正构成了他们爱情中极为重要的一部分:思想的交流与理解。在来往信件中,两人会谈及工作之桎梏、生活之不自由、性情之被束缚。

王小波说,“我也不肯因为什么仪式性的东西去写什么,唱什么,画什么,顶多敷衍它一下”。李银河说,自己的工作“只能一点点前进”,“什么时候我们才能拿出一些无愧于人类智慧也无愧于自己的东西呢?”他们谈论小说、诗歌、伦理学,用现在的流行语来说,更深沉的爱,也许正在这样的Deep Talk里生成。
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4 reviews
July 27, 2016
I read some of Wang's novels from my dad's bookshelf before reading this book for the first time in high school (around 2005). I borrowed it from a friend, a girl who told me that she just really loved the Wang Xiaobo-Li Yinghe combo (when I asked if she was a fan of Li, because she had most of Li's books including the unpublished ones...). It was such a cute and Romantic book that I still remember passing the book around and discussing about it in class breaks. One of the girls said, seriously, "Wang just makes THE perfect husband!" and most of the class agreed (we only had 5 or 6 guys in class, so almost every girl in the class just loved it. Not surprisingly, many years later, words from the love letters are all over the Internet and Wechat posts(some didn't even acknowledge the author, meh!).

Recently I had another read of the book. It feels slight different from the last time. My impression of Wang Xiaobo (from his novels) were mainly about his black humor, sharp observation on his fellow citizens and put it artfully in the novels. Reading the lover letters gives a pretty much different view of the same person. He was such an "atypical" Chinese (I am being unintentionally mean haha, because it's almost saying most other Chinese are romantically inexpressive and not fun......) and a main reason for it was because he READ intensely and talked about what he read in the letters (which is adorable). I know people usually don't use words like "adorable" reviewing a book, but if you read this collection of letters, you would imagine the witty little boy inside of Wang through his words.

-You are a very adorable person, and you deserve a really great guy. I really hope that I am that guy.


-Would you like to know how I feel for you? It's just simply liking you from the bottom of my heart, seeing that everything you do is just nice, feeling unhappy if you love another guy more than you love me. If you love another guy I would cry, but I would still love you.


-No matter how average I personally am, I always reckon that my love for you is beautiful.


-I'm so scared that you would figure out that I am an idiot.


-I wanted to just keep laughing/joking (at everything) everywhere in this world, include laughing/joking at myself too, and keep doing this until I'm dead. But now I want to be serious, because you are a serious person.
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I think the reason that people love these letters is precisely on the fact that we can all relate to his affection for his girl, but few of us are able to express it like him. The title of the book "Loving You is Like Loving Life" comes from this letter as below. I personally also think that it is how Li Yinghe felt about her loving husband when the book was published 7 years after his sudden death.

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Hi Li Yinghe!


After breaking up last night, I am very sad. I am such a stupid person for getting this disgusting mark (note: I guess, as a 'mark' for meeting Li's mother) that would disgust any living being, how shameful! In addition, you were heartbroken too. So, it makes me much more heartbroken.

I feel that you are struggling over some decisions. It maybe my shameless assumption - like ugly frogs, so if I got it wrong, don't feel bad. I would eat up those ugly frogs if that is the case. But if you really can't make up your mind, let me do it for you then.

Your mom doesn't like me. She is a nice person, so what is the point of making her angry. Additionally, such thing (note: referring to her mom not liking him) is not something you deserve. There are many more good people who don't like me. Why it is you who have to suffer from so much pain!

As for me. I love you. I loved you when I first saw you. I love you that I forget about being selfish. It's just like someone had a pigeon that flew away, and he would still wish it a good journey. So you may just fly away from me too. I will be sad, and I will be happy, but honestly I don't know how it would end.


Let me say a few more sentences to make you angry, so that you would dislike me. Those would be petite bourgeoisie-sh words! You are already 26/27, and can no long be together with a camel (note: I guess, again, referring to himself, lol). If that is the case, it's better to just think for yourself.


[Note: I'm omitting the parts about his own sorrows as a 16 year old and how he thinks about having to give up ideas he valued. Then he suggested blaming himself together so that she could stop feeling sad...]


However, would I stop loving you? No. Loving your is like loving life. Never mind, let's stop talking bullish*t.

An old fellow came to talk me into writing about some anti-Japanese invasion events in Jiaodong, for which he has primary resources. Do you think I would love to write it? If I'd like to write this, I'd also love to hang myself. But if you are unwilling to break up, I'll go and write about it. After all, I don't want you to be bothered any more.

I love you a lot, really. When you want me to do anything, I'd go crazy. Am I a bad person? Should I go and try start over again?

But forget about the later part of this letter, they do not count. Please think about the first part, and reply to me soon. I had very bad handwriting this time, because I wrote it up in the balcony.


And, no matter how you may think about it, we are still friends. There is no reason to change that, isn't it?

Wang Xiaobo,
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132 reviews
June 18, 2021
写给李银河的太腻歪啦,全是呢 呀 呵之类的语气词。五线谱情书好浪漫
【银河,你好!做梦也想不到我把信写到五线谱上吧?五线谱是偶然来的,你也是偶然来的。不过我给你的信值得写在五线谱里呢。但愿我和你,是一支唱不完的歌。】
【我希望我的“自我”永远“滋滋”地响,翻腾不休,就像火炭上的一滴糖。】
后面写给别人的信可以当作杂文看看。
【在我们这里,假如谁要奉献一点可观的东西,就需要冷静而睿智,同时在内心深处彻头彻尾的疯狂。这可不那么容易。】
17 reviews2 followers
April 30, 2019
What a sweet story between Xiaobo and Yinhe. The other surprising thing I just found is that Xiaobo was a coder while he was writing. He even programmed a software to help his typewritings.
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255 reviews4 followers
February 20, 2020
世界上好人不少,不过你是最重要的一个。你要是愿意,我就永远爱你,你要不愿意,我就永远相思。
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189 reviews7 followers
January 29, 2021
//我把我整個的靈魂都給你,連同它的怪癖,耍小脾氣,忽明忽暗,一千八百種壞毛病。它真討厭,只有一點好,愛你。
105 reviews21 followers
January 28, 2022
20190217- HK // 20220124-20220128 // 本来怎么也看不下去,三年后不知怎么也就看下去了。肉麻确实还是肉麻得很。信这东西也真的是让现代人感觉有sentimental value. 这么多年坚持写也是相当不易
66 reviews
October 15, 2022
我爱读王小波,并不是他写的多好,这跟文字的优美与否是无关的。而是读他之前我是一个已经像石头一样的中年男人,有自己的位置,有自己的处境,有一些自满和自卑,读了他之后我觉得自己也许可以不用做一块石头,前路还远,我还可以做一片云。
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1 review
August 19, 2025
腻歪,有点无聊,热恋中的人大概会觉得读着有劲。
后面摘录的绿发水怪真不错,让我有兴趣买了王小波其他的小说
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11 reviews
April 27, 2014
"我现在已经养成了一种习惯,就是每三二天要找你说几句不想对别人说的话。当然还有更多的话没有说出口来,但是只要我把它带到了你面前,我走开的时候自己就满意了,这些念头就不会再折磨我了。 " 你呐,真是让人爱的要命。
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64 reviews
May 11, 2014
情书的部分看着看着就厌倦了。绿毛水怪倒是不错的。
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5 reviews
October 26, 2015
像一个叛逆但是执着的大男孩在碎碎念 不仅念出他的爱也念出了他的人生哲学 感人 意犹未尽
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37 reviews2 followers
June 7, 2017
I can feel the humor, the conflicts, the worries of the author, but more importantly, the true love to his girlfriend.
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