I find Hermann Hesse's book, Narcissus and Goldmund, intellectually exciting. After reading the book last year, I remember putting it down and sighing contentedly. I had, after a sleepless night, finally finished. What I reveled in was not the fact that I could sleep, but that I had come away with an inexplicable something. It was not an understanding which could be pinpointed and explained. Rather, it was a sense I felt in the depths of my soul. And yet, what delighted me more was that I knew that I had only begun to understand the book; that there remained countless messages which I could only sense but not grasp. Here, finally, I had a book which could be re-read. And every time I finished, I would come away with a new understanding of something I could not put into words.

Unlike the normal academic, I do not want to find the final answer for everything. Throughout my life, I have always felt a sense of loss after succeeding in a long search. For me, it is not the ends I seek, but the means themselves. I am perfectly content to never find the final answer as long as I will always be able to find a better one.

點(diǎn)評(píng)：

首先，因?yàn)椴涣私膺@篇文章的題目要求是什么，因此只能從作者的文字表達(dá)上，內(nèi)容的構(gòu)造上進(jìn)行粗略的點(diǎn)評(píng)。

從文章的內(nèi)容上來看，我覺得作者是想通過一本書對(duì)自己的深刻影響從而推導(dǎo)出自己對(duì)人生的追求態(tài)度。作者通宵達(dá)旦看完《納爾齊斯與歌爾德蒙》后，感到無比的快樂，因?yàn)槊看伍喿x完這本書都能給他帶來新的想法，然讓他意識(shí)到盲目的最求一切事物的最終解決答案并不是明智的，更重要的是能夠不斷地發(fā)掘更好的答案。

但是要是從文章的結(jié)構(gòu)內(nèi)容上來看，就略顯單薄。因?yàn)橹挥卸潭痰膬啥?，文章的?nèi)容并不能得到很充分的表達(dá)。讓讀者理解起來有一定的難度，因?yàn)楂@得的信息似乎太少。到底是書中哪些部分讓作者有如此深刻的覺悟，我們并不知道。作者又是如何意識(shí)到盲目的尋找一切事物的最終答案是不理智的呢？這些都需要作者進(jìn)一步去解釋的。

總而言之，這一篇文章在構(gòu)思上是不錯(cuò)的，只是欠缺了一些內(nèi)容，如果略加補(bǔ)充，相信會(huì)是一篇很不錯(cuò)的文章。

譯文：

我覺得赫爾曼.海塞的書，《納爾齊斯與歌爾德蒙》，是那么的激動(dòng)人心。去年讀晚這本書后，我仍記得放下后我心滿意足的嘆了口氣。我終于在一整夜沒睡的情況下，完成了閱讀這本書。讓我得意的并不是我終于可以睡覺了，而是我?guī)е恍o法解釋的東西一起離開了。這并不是一個(gè)可以被查明的很精確或解釋的很清晰的理解。相反，這是一種我感到靈魂深處的感覺。然而，讓我感到驚喜的是我知道我開始理解這本書，那里仍有許多我只可以感覺到卻無法領(lǐng)會(huì)的信息。這個(gè)時(shí)候，我終于有了一本可以反復(fù)閱讀的書。并且在每次閱讀完后，我都能帶著一些對(duì)事物新的理解看法離開，是我無法用言語表達(dá)出來的。

不同于一般的學(xué)術(shù)，我不想再尋找一切事物的最后答案。在我的生活中，我一直覺得在成功長(zhǎng)期搜索后的失落感。對(duì)于我來說，這不是我尋找的結(jié)局，而是它們本身的含義。我絕對(duì)甘心永遠(yuǎn)找不到最終的答案，只要我能找到一個(gè)更好的。