内容简介
《河边的错误》收录了余华**代表性的四部中篇小说：《河边的错误》讲的是一个被河溪环线的小镇上发生了骇人听闻的凶杀案，警察马哲奉命去调查，不料案件却陷入困境；《古典爱情》讲的是出身贫寒的柳生在昌盛之时上京赶考，在一座大宅的阁楼内邂逅小姐惠，并相约赶考后再见。数月后，落榜的柳生回到旧地，赫然发现当初的阁楼已不复存在；《偶然事件》讲的是两个男人在咖啡馆里旁观了一场凶杀案，被警方收走身份证。数日后警方寄还时错误地将两个人的身份证互换。两个因此互相通信，并在信中推理咖啡馆凶杀案的缘由，却不料导致了另一场凶杀；《一九八六年》讲的是20世纪70年代中国某个小镇上一个历史老师失踪，留下妻子和幼女，多年后他疯癫归来时，妻子早已改嫁他人。

作者简介
余华，北京师范大学教授。1960年4月出生，1983年开始写作，主要作品有《兄弟》《活着》《许三观卖血记》《在细雨中呼喊》《第七天》等。作品被翻译成40多种语言在美国、英国、澳大利亚、新西兰、法国、德国、意大利、西班牙、葡萄牙、巴西、荷兰、瑞典、挪威、丹麦、芬兰、希腊、俄罗斯、保加利亚、匈牙利、捷克、斯洛伐克、塞尔维亚、波黑、斯洛文尼亚、阿尔巴尼亚、波兰、罗马尼亚、土耳其、以色列、埃及、科威特、乌兹别克斯坦、蒙古、日本、韩国、越南、泰国、缅甸、印尼和印度等40多个国家和地区出版。曾获意大利格林扎纳·卡佛文学奖（1998年），法国文学和艺术骑士勋章（2004年），法国国际信使外国小说奖（2008年），意大利朱塞佩·阿切尔比国际文学奖（2014年），塞尔维亚伊沃·安徳里奇文学奖（2018年）等。

精彩书评
其实，从《十八岁出门远行》到《第七天》，余华的整体叙事、语言风格依然都没有太大的变化，依然是自己独特的语言和风格的延续。只要不出现审美疲劳，余华的小说依然很有魅力。就像他的中短篇小说，无论你什么时候看，都能看出不同感受，他没有跳脱时间，但他写作的深度却已经脱离时间和时代的限制。

——梁文道

暴力是余华对这个世界之本质的基本指证，它也是贯穿余华小说始终的一个主词。如《一九八六年》《现实一种》《河边的错误》《古典爱情》等作品，写的多是一种纯粹的肉体暴力，并用肉体暴力这个寓言作为精神暴力和思想暴力的一个转喻，以完成对一种内在真实的书写。

——谢有顺（著名文学评论家）

卡尔维诺说：“我们可以说，几个世纪以来，文学中有两种对立的倾向互相竞争：一种倾向致力于把语言变为一种像云朵一样，或者说得更好一点，像纤细的尘埃一样，或者说得再好一点，磁场中磁力线一样盘旋于物外的某种毫无重量的因素。另外一种倾向则致力于给予语言以沉重感、密度和事物、躯体和感受的具体性。”在《河边的错误》等一些中短篇小说中，余华确实实现了卡尔维诺所说的“把语言变成一种像云朵一样”的质感。

—朱白（著名书评人）


Content introduction
"The Mistake by the River" includes four of Yu Hua's most representative novellas: "The Mistake by the River" tells the story of a small town surrounded by rivers and rivers in a shocking murder, the police Ma Zhe is ordered to investigate, but the case is in trouble; "Classical Love" tells the story of Liu Sheng, who was born poor, who went to Beijing to take the exam when he was prosperous, and met Miss Hui in the attic of a mansion, and met to see her again after the exam. A few months later, Liu Sheng returned to the old place, suddenly found that the original attic no longer exists; The story is about two men who watch a murder in a cafe and have their ids taken away by the police. A few days later, the police mistakenly exchanged the two men's ID cards. The two therefore write to each other, and in the letter to reason about the cafe murder, only to lead to another murder; "1986" tells the story of a history teacher who disappears in a small town in China in the 1970s, leaving behind a wife and young daughter who, when he returns years later, has remarried.

About the author
Yu Hua is a professor at Beijing Normal University. Born in April 1960, he began to write in 1983, and his main works include "Brother", "To Live", "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", "Crying in the Drizzle", "The Seventh Day" and so on. His works have been translated into more than 40 languages in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Albania, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany, Germany. It has been published in more than 40 countries and regions including Israel, Egypt, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Indonesia and India. He has been awarded the Italian Grindezana Carver Literary Prize (1998), the French Chevalier des Lettres et des Arts (2004), the French International Messenger Prize for Foreign Fiction (2008), the Italian Giuseppe Archerby International Literary Prize (2014), and the Serbian Ivo Andrich Literary Prize (2018), among others.

Wonderful book review
In fact, from "Going on a Journey at the age of Eighteen" to "The Seventh Day", Yu Hua's overall narrative and language style have not changed much, and it is still a continuation of his own unique language and style. As long as aesthetic fatigue does not appear, Yu Hua's novels remain charming. Just like his short stories, no matter when you read them, you can see different feelings, he did not skip time, but the depth of his writing has broken away from the limitations of time and times.

-- Liang Wendao

Violence is Yu Hua's basic testimony to the nature of this world, and it is also a theme throughout Yu Hua's novels. For example, in 1986, One Kind of Reality, The Mistake by the River, Classical Love and other works, most of them write about a pure physical violence, and use the parable of physical violence as a metonymy of mental violence and ideological violence to complete the writing of an inner reality.

-- Xie Youshun, a famous literary critic

Calvino said, "We may say that for centuries there have been two opposing tendencies competing with each other in literature: one that has sought to transform language into something weightless like a cloud, or better yet, like a fine dust, or better yet, like the lines of force in a magnetic field hovering out of it." The other tendency is to give language weight, density and concreteness of things, bodies and feelings." In some novellas, such as "The Mistake by the River," Yu Hua does achieve what Calvino calls the quality of "turning language into a kind of cloud."

-- Zhu Bai, a famous book reviewer