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.

點評：

首先，因為不了解這篇文章的題目要求是什么，因此只能從作者的文字表達上，內容的構造上進行粗略的點評。

從文章的內容上來看，我覺得作者是想通過一本書對自己的深刻影響從而推導出自己對人生的追求態度。作者通宵達旦看完《納爾齊斯與歌爾德蒙》后，感到無比的快樂，因為每次閱讀完這本書都能給他帶來新的想法，然讓他意識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掘更好的答案。

但是要是從文章的結構內容上來看，就略顯單薄。因為只有短短的兩段，文章的內容并不能得到很充分的表達。讓讀者理解起來有一定的難度，因為獲得的信息似乎太少。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？這些都需要作者進一步去解釋的。

總而言之，這一篇文章在構思上是不錯的，只是欠缺了一些內容，如果略加補充，相信會是一篇很不錯的文章。

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，而是我帶著一些無法解釋的東西一起離開了。這并不是一個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會的信息。這個時候，我終于有了一本可以反復閱讀的書。并且在每次閱讀完后，我都能帶著一些對事物新的理解看法離開，是我無法用言語表達出來的。

不同于一般的學術，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期搜索后的失落感。對于我來說，這不是我尋找的結局，而是它們本身的含義。我絕對甘心永遠找不到最終的答案，只要我能找到一個更好的。