【韩寒时代】 韩寒赛车水平

　　韩寒，一个响亮的名字，因为“新概念作文大赛”，因为《三重门》，因为他辍学的经历和早期的叛逆，因为作家和赛车手的双重身份，因为他对社会弊端的直言不讳，因为他超越同龄人的社会责任感……说不清楚他受人追捧的原因到底是哪个，但可以肯定的是，他已成为一代人的偶像、新锐作家的代表。
　　
　　n December, 1999, a publisher in Shanghai received a handwritten manuscript by a first-time author named Han Han, who had recently dropped out1) of tenth grade. Han had spent more than a year writing a novel, Triple Door, in the back of the classroom, on his way to flunking2) seven courses. An editor was enthusiastic and printed thirty thousand copies. They sold out in three days. Another thirty thousand copies were printed, and they sold out, too.
　　1999年12月，上海的一家出版社收到一份手写的书稿，作者名叫韩寒，彼时刚从高一退学，这部作品是他的处女作。韩寒花了一年多时间在教室后排的座位上写出了这部名叫《三重门》的小说，在此期间他的七门功课一路“红灯高挂”。该出版社的一位编辑对这本小说很感兴趣，于是印了三万册，三天之内便销售一空。随后加印了三万册，也售罄。
　　
　　Before Han"s parents knew if they were having a boy or a girl, they agreed to name the baby Han Han, the father"s abandoned pen name. Han was a fidgety3), outdoorsy child, but his father stacked the household"s best literature on low shelves, where the boy could reach it. "I usually tell people that I don"t read, but of course that"s impossible," he said. "I also tell other race-car drivers that I never practice, but I do, secretly." It was reading the Chinese classics that alienated4) him from his school curriculum.
　　He wrote occasionally, and when he was sixteen he heard that a Shanghai magazine was looking for young writers to enter the New Concept Essay Contest. He entered and took first place. The essay still circulates among fans.
　　The year Han won the essay contest, he failed his courses and was held back5). On the verge of failing again, he dropped out, which made him desperate to publish his manuscript, "to prove myself." He said, "I had told my classmates and teacher that I was a good writer and I could make a living from it, but they said I was crazy."
　　Triple Door was a scathingly6) realistic satire of education and authority, written by a nobody. China Central Television held an hour-long discussion on its national broadcast. But on TV Han projected insolent7) glamour8), with a boy-band shag9) haircut that swept down and across his left eye. When educators in suits and ties criticized "rebelliousness", Han smiled, cut them off, and said, "From the sound of it, your life experience has been even shallower than mine." He was instantly famous―a spokesman for a new brand of youthful defiance10), which the Chinese press called "Han Han fever". Triple Door went on to sell more than two million copies, putting it among China"s best-selling novels of the past two decades. In the next several years, Han published four more novels and several essay collections which have sold millions more.
　　Five years ago, Han started blogging, and his focus took an unmistakable turn toward some of the society"s most sensitive matters. It was as if Stephenie Meyer11) had abandoned the Twilight series and started directing fans" attention to the misuse of public funds.
　　Han proved even more successful online than in print. In 2008, he surpassed a movie star to become China"s most popular personal blogger. Han"s site―a simple chronicle in the style of a diary, on a blue background with a photograph of a yellow puppy in the corner―has had nearly half a billion visitors since it began.
　　"As soon as I started making money from writing, I started buying sports cars and racing", he said. "Other drivers looked down on me, because they thought, "You"re a writer; you"re supposed to be driving into walls."" Han silenced doubts about his seriousness as a driver in 2007, when he won the China Circuit Car Championship. For nearly a decade, Han Han has maintained a parallel career as a race-car driver, with a respectable record in circuit competition and in off-road rally12) races.
　　He began a television interview by saying "If you speak Chinese, you know who I am."―a boast not quite as ridiculous as it sounds.
　　Han long ago recognized his "rebel" identity as a cliché. The racer lived as rebels, but with limits. After midnight, he"d speed down, stopping at every red light. Actually, when he isn"t racing, the rebel keeps quiet rhythms: he doesn"t smoke, barely drinks, and has no interest in night-clubs. On the days that Han writes, he sleeps until midday and usually works-fast and alone―into the predawn hours. He is a proudly self-described "country bumpkin13)". In person, he is warm and laconic14), and speaks through a smile that tends to camouflage15) the searing16) edge of his comments. Once or twice a week, Han takes the highway from downtown Shanghai to the suburban village where he grew up in a farmhouse now occupied by his grandparents.
　　"I always feel like I"m scared in some way―scared of having too little to offer," he said. "I always think I should be doing more―writing more, winning more." One area in which he has permitted himself to slow down lately is his fiction. His latest novel, 1988: I Want to Talk with the World, is more focused and compassionate than previous work, and was warmly received. His latest narrator speaks admiringly of "hot-blooded people" who exude17) intensity18) and never shy from responsibilities. Han acknowledges a change in tone. "In previous books, I wanted my readers to love every single page, to laugh at the jokes, to be impressed with every detail," he said. "I"ve done enough of that. I"m starting to write real fiction."
　　Han"s visibility reflected how much wider the realm19) of Chinese intellectual life had become over the past decade. Many Chinese people understand that what you say and what you think often don"t match up20). But Han Han isn"t like this. He just says what"s on his mind, or he"ll say nothing. If Han Han says, "This is true," then ten million fans will say, "This is true." If he says "this is fake", then it"s fake. "If we wanted a better China, we couldn"t sit around and wait," he said.
　　He has advertising contracts with Johnnie Walker21), which pairs his brooding22) image with the line "Dreaming is realizing every idea that flashes through one"s mind."
　　
　　韩寒的父母在不知道生男生女的情况下，就商量好给孩子取名“韩寒”――他父亲曾用过的一个笔名。韩寒幼时生性好动，在家里待不住，不过他的父亲还是把家里的文学藏书摆放在书架的下面几层，让年少的韩寒能够拿到。“我常对别人说我不读书，但这当然不可能，”他说，“我也对别的赛车手说我从不练车，但我其实练车，偷偷练。”正是阅读这些国学经典让他与学校的课程渐行渐远。
　　他偶尔也写点什么。16岁那年，他听说上海某杂志在征召青少年写手参加“新概念作文大赛”。他报名参加了比赛，并一举夺魁。他当年的获奖作文至今仍在粉丝中广为流传。
　　韩寒赢得征文比赛的那一年，他在学校的课程门门红灯，他也因此被迫留级。当再次濒临挂科时，韩寒选择了退学，这使他拼了命地想要出版他的书稿，“以证明自己”。他说：“我曾对同学和老师说，我文章写得好，能以此为生，但他们都说我疯了。”
　　这位无名小卒所著的小说《三重门》是一部现实主义作品，对教育和权威进行了尖刻的讽刺。中国中央电视台为此在央视频道播出了长达一个小时的讨论。不过，电视上的韩寒留着常见于男孩偶像组合的蓬乱发型，刘海扫过前额，遮住了他的左眼，整个人散发着一股桀骜不驯的魅力。当西装革履的教育家们声讨他的“反叛行为”时，韩寒笑了笑，打断他们说：“从你们的口气看，你们的生活积淀甚至还没我厚。”他就此一举成名，成为新生代青少年反叛者的代言人，引发了一股中国媒体所谓的“韩寒热”。《三重门》继续热销，卖出了两百多万册，跻身中国20年来最畅销的小说之列。之后几年，韩寒又出版了四部小说和数本杂文集，销量也达百万之多。
　　五年前，韩寒开始写博客，将注意力很明显地转到那些社会最敏感的问题上。这就好比是斯蒂芬妮・梅尔放弃《暮光之城》系列，着手将粉丝的视线导向公共基金的滥用问题一样。
　　事实证明，韩寒在网上比在纸上更加成功。 2008年，他超过一位电影明星，成为中国最受欢迎的博主。韩寒的博客采取日记体的简单记录形式，蓝色的背景，左上角有一只小黄狗的照片。自开博以来，他的博客已有近五亿人次的浏览量(编者注：本文写于2011年7月，现已超过五亿)。
　　“我写书刚一赚钱，就开始买赛车跑比赛，”他说，“别的车手都看不起我，因为他们觉得‘你只会写书，开起车来不撞墙才怪。’” 2007年，韩寒赢得了“中国汽车场地锦标赛”总冠军，让那些怀疑他是否诚心想当车手的人哑口无言。近十年来，韩寒一直维持着与写作齐头并进的赛车生涯，在锦标赛和越野拉力赛上都取得了骄人的成绩。
　　他曾在一次电视采访时作开场白说：“只要你讲中文，你就知道我是谁。” 虽然有些自吹自擂，但也并非狂言。
　　韩寒很早以前就不再视“叛逆”为新鲜玩意儿了。这位车手虽然活得叛逆，但颇有分寸。午夜过后，他会放慢车速，遇红灯就停。事实上，不赛车时，这位叛逆者过着平静而规律的生活：他不抽烟，很少喝酒，对夜总会毫无兴趣。写作的日子里，他会睡到中午，然后一个人奋笔疾书，直到天将破晓。他自豪地称自己为“乡巴佬”。私下里，他为人热心，言简意赅，说话时常一脸微笑，这样往往易于掩饰其言论的锋利之处。韩寒每个星期都会开车从上海市中心沿高速公路回市郊的农村老家一两次。他在那里的农舍中长大，现在那里住着他的祖父母。
　　“我总会有诚惶诚恐的感觉，害怕自己能得拿出手的东西太少，”他说，“我总在想我应该做得更多些――写更多的书，赢更多的比赛。” 最近，他允许自己在小说创作这一块儿放慢了步伐。他最新的小说《1988：我想和这个世界谈谈》比他以往的作品主旨更明确、更富同情心，备受好评。小说中的叙述者大加赞扬了“热血之士”――那些情感热烈、从不回避责任的人。韩寒承认新书在笔调上有所改变。“在以前写的几本书中，我希望我的读者能对每页爱不释手，能被每个笑话逗乐，能对每个细节印象深刻，”他说，“那些我已经做得够多了。现在我要开始写真正的小说。”
　　韩寒的知名度表明，在过去十年里，中国知识分子的活动领域已大大扩展。很多中国人都知道，人们的所言和所想往往并不一致。但韩寒却不是这样。他脑子里想什么嘴里就说什么，不然就干脆缄口不言。如果韩寒说“这是真的”，那么就会有一亿粉丝跟着说“这是真的”；如果他说“这是假的”，那就是假的。“要想让中国变得更好，我们就不能坐着干等。”他说。
　　韩寒与尊尼获加威士忌签有广告合同，广告中，他一副沉思的样子，旁边配有一句广告语――“梦想就是实现脑海里闪过的每个想法。”
　　
　　经典语录
　　将一句话谨献给所有正春风得意或秋风不得意的人们，非常平凡，但你一定要坚信自己：我是金子，我要闪光的。
　　
　　我在上学的时候喜欢踢球。有人讽刺我说再踢也踢不到国家队，踢再好也好不过罗纳尔多，踢了有什么意思，不许踢了。那么，如果你自己喜欢开车，我对你说，你再开也开不到麦克拉伦车队去，开再快也快不过舒马赫，开了有什么意思，驾照没收了。
　　
　　如果现在这个时代能出全才，那便是应试教育的幸运和这个时代的不幸。如果有，他便是人中之王，可惜没有，所以我们只好把“全”字“人”下的“王”给拿掉。时代需要的只是人才。
　　
　　一个钢琴弹得不错的朋友说教我弹钢琴，我说算了。朋友说没关系，可以强行记一两首歌就行了，比如《两只老虎》和《两只蝴蝶》什么的。我想了想，觉得还是算了，一件事，弄得一知半解最没意思，要么就做一出场别人就全歇了的那种，要么还是观赏别的强人得了。如果搞半天，让人知道我会弹钢琴，但只会弹四只动物，那也太难为情了。
　　
　　1. drop out: 退出；退学
　　2. flunk [flʌŋk] vt. 通不过(考试等)
　　3. fidgety [ˈfɪdʒɪti] adj. 坐立不安的
　　4. alienate [ˈeɪliəneɪt] vt. 使疏远
　　5. be held back: 留级
　　6. scathingly [ˈskeɪðɪŋli] adv. 严厉地，尖锐地，刻薄地
　　7. insolent [ˈɪnsələnt] adj. 无礼的；傲慢的
　　8. glamour [ˈ�læmə(r)] n. 魅力；诱惑力
　　9. shag [ʃæ�] adj. (毛发等)蓬乱的
　　10. defiance [dɪˈfaɪəns] n. 反抗；蔑视
　　11. Stephenie Meyer: 斯蒂芬妮・梅尔(1973~)，畅销小说《暮光之城》(The Twilight Saga)系列的作者
　　12. rally [ˈræli] n. 汽车拉力赛
　　13. country bumpkin: = bumpkin [ˈbʌmpkɪn] n. 乡下人，土包子
　　14. laconic [ləˈkɒnɪk] adj. (话语、文章等)简洁的，精练的
　　15. camouflage [ˈkæməfl�ːʒ] vt. 伪装；掩饰
　　16. searing [ˈsɪərɪŋ] adj. (言论、演讲等)批判有力的
　　17. exude [ɪ�ˈzjuːd] vt. 充分显露(喜、怒等)
　　18. intensity [ɪnˈtensəti] n. (思想、感情、活动等的)强烈，剧烈，紧张
　　19. realm [relm] n. 领域；范围
　　20. match up: 一致，一样
　　21. Johnnie Walker: 尊尼获加，畅销全球的苏格兰威士忌品牌，创立于1820年。
　　22. brooding [ˈbruːdɪŋ] adj. 沉思的；忧思的

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