This ritualized novel is much like a melodrama, poem or song, managing with ease to sketch out the nature of life in the constant metempsychosis in which the divinity usually hides.

• 仪式化的小说像戏，像诗，也像歌，举重若轻地勾画出无休止的生死锁链中生命的本然情态。此种情态往往潜隐着神性。