读陈染的小说,总会有意无意地想到已故法国女作家杜拉斯。她们的小说有着极相似之处,如第一人称的叙述视角、人生困境的刻意揭示和对生活激情有些扭曲的表达。考虑到杜拉斯的声誉以及她对90年代中国女作家的影响,我们或多或少会认为这是中国女作家对其法国姐妹的模仿, Reading Chen’s novels, always consciously or unconsciously think of the late French woman writer Duras. Their novels have very similarities, such as the first person’s narrative perspective, the deliberate revealing of the predicament of life and the distorted expression of passion for life. Given Duras’s reputation and her influence on Chinese women writers in the 1990s, we more or less think of it as an imitation of the French sisters by Chinese women writers,