宏伟酒店:神话般的巴黎地标的复活_英美文化

宏伟酒店:神话般的巴黎地标的复活

Its where Proust met Joyce and Kissinger ended the Vietnam War. John Lichfield reports on a ￡350m facelift to restore the city landmark

就是在这里普鲁斯特(法国意识流作家)会见了乔伊斯(爱尔兰作家诗人)。这里也曾是享利基辛格(第56任美国国务卿)结束越南战争的地方。约翰利奇菲尔德就这起花了3.5亿英镑翻新以恢复这个城市地标的事件作出了报告。

JOHN LICHFIELD PARIS Friday 25 July 2014

作者: 约翰·利奇菲尔德2014年7月25日于巴黎

On 18 May 1922, Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the two greatest novelists of the 20th century, met for the first and only time.

1922年5月18日，20世纪两位最伟大的小说家马塞尔普鲁斯特和占姆斯乔伊斯，第一次会见也是唯一的一次。

They did not get on well. Joyce described their conversation as all questions whose answers were . He outraged the asthmatic French writer by lighting a cigarette as they shared a car home.

两位作家的会面并不愉快。乔伊斯描述他们的谈话为『所有问题的回答他都说“不”』。因为他点燃了一根香烟激怒了这位有哮喘的法国作家，那时他们共乘一辆车子回家。

The soirée for modernist painters, musicians, dancers and writers had been arranged by a rich, eccentric British couple, Sydney and Violet Schiff. The other guests included Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky. The dinner took place at the Hotel Majestic, 19 Avenue Kléber, in Paris.