文书点评：杜克大学本科申请文书

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.

点评：

首先，因为不了解这篇文章的题目要求是什么，因此只能从作者的文字表达上，内容的构造上进行粗略的点评。

从文章的内容上来看，我觉得作者是想通过一本书对自己的深刻影响从而推导出自己对人生的追求态度。作者通宵达旦看完《纳尔齐斯与歌尔德蒙》后，感到无比的快乐，因为每次阅读完这本书都能给他带来新的想法，然让他意识到盲目的最求一切事物的最终解决答案并不是明智的，更重要的是能够不断地发掘更好的答案。

但是要是从文章的结构内容上来看，就略显单薄。因为只有短短的两段，文章的内容并不能得到很充分的表达。让读者理解起来有一定的难度，因为获得的信息似乎太少。到底是书中哪些部分让作者有如此深刻的觉悟，我们并不知道。作者又是如何意识到盲目的寻找一切事物的最终答案是不理智的呢？这些都需要作者进一步去解释的。

总而言之，这一篇文章在构思上是不错的，只是欠缺了一些内容，如果略加补充，相信会是一篇很不错的文章。

译文：

我觉得赫尔曼.海塞的书，《纳尔齐斯与歌尔德蒙》，是那么的激动人心。去年读晚这本书后，我仍记得放下后我心满意足的叹了口气。我终于在一整夜没睡的情况下，完成了阅读这本书。让我得意的并不是我终于可以睡觉了，而是我带着一些无法解释的东西一起离开了。这并不是一个可以被查明的很精确或解释的很清晰的理解。相反，这是一种我感到灵魂深处的感觉。然而，让我感到惊喜的是我知道我开始理解这本书，那里仍有许多我只可以感觉到却无法领会的信息。这个时候，我终于有了一本可以反复阅读的书。并且在每次阅读完后，我都能带着一些对事物新的理解看法离开，是我无法用言语表达出来的。

不同于一般的学术，我不想再寻找一切事物的最后答案。在我的生活中，我一直觉得在成功长期搜索后的失落感。对于我来说，这不是我寻找的结局，而是它们本身的含义。我绝对甘心永远找不到最终的答案，只要我能找到一个更好的。