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It's where Proust met Joyce and Kissinger ended the Vietnam War. John Lichfield reports on a ￡350m facelift to restore the city landmark
就是在這里普魯斯特(法國意識流作家)會見了喬伊斯(愛爾蘭作家詩人)。這里也曾是享利‧基辛格(第56任美國國務卿)結束越南戰爭的地方。約翰‧利奇菲爾德就這起花了3.5億英鎊翻新以恢復這個城市地標的事件作出了報告。
JOHN LICHFIELD PARIS Friday 25 July 2014
作者: 約翰·利奇菲爾德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世紀兩位最偉大的小說家馬塞爾‧普魯斯特和占姆斯‧喬伊斯，第一次會見也是唯一的一次。
They did not get on well. Joyce described their conversation as "all questions whose answers were 'No'." He outraged the asthmatic French writer by lighting a cigarette as they shared a car home.
兩位作家的會面并不愉快。喬伊斯描述他們的談話為『所有問題的回答他都說“不”』。因為他點燃了一根香煙激怒了這位有哮喘的法國作家，那時他們共乘一輛車子回家。
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.
一對富有的、古怪的英國夫婦悉尼和紫羅蘭希夫給一些現代派畫家、音樂家、舞蹈家和作家等舉辦晚會。其余的嘉賓包括了畢加索(畫家)和伊戈爾•斯特拉文斯基(音樂家)。晚宴在巴黎克萊貝爾大道19號的宏偉酒店內舉行。
