这是一部典型地代表了朱文颖艺术风格的长篇小说。那种古典的气息，那种梦幻的色调，那种潮湿而灰暗的氛围，那种欲望的宣泄和心绪的波动，都像水一样在小说中流淌。置身在小说的艺术氛围中，你会很快失去时间的概念，有一种恍如隔世的感觉。作家无意于展现时代，也无意于刻画多少人物，她试图揭示的其实只是某种心态、意绪与幻觉。在这个意义上，两位女性的故事与命运与其说是实在的，还不如说是虚拟的、象征化的。相反她们的生存感受，她们的虚荣，她们的欲望，她们的焦虑，她们的空虚，才是实在的、根本的、弥漫性的。（This is a full-length novel which typically represents the artistic style of Zhu Wenying. The classic flavor, the dreamy hue, the damp and gloomy atmosphere, the catharsis of desire and the fluctuation of mood flow in the novel like water. In the artistic atmosphere of the novel, you will soon lose the concept of time and have a feeling as if a generation had passed. The writer neither has intention to show how the times, nor has intention to describe many characters. What she tries to reveal is actually certain mentality, consciousness and illusion. In this sense, the story and fate of the two women are more virtual and symbolic than real ones. On the contrary, only their feelings of living, their vanities, their desires, their anxieties and their emptiness are real, fundamental and diffuse.）