Shakespeare & Company, Paris
莎士比亚书店,巴黎
Named after a bookstore frequented by Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce during the 1920s, the shop on Paris’s Left Bank has become equally legendary. Opened in 1951 by the American George Whitman – and run by his daughter Sylvia since his death in 2011 – it became a gathering place for Beat Generation writers like Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs. From the start, Whitman allowed travelling artists and writers to lodge at the shop, which is also a lending library.
由于上世纪20年代,埃兹拉庞德、欧内斯特海明威、詹姆斯乔伊斯等文学大家成为这里的常客,莎士比亚书店几乎可以称得上巴黎左岸的传奇。这家书店是1951年由美国人乔治惠特曼创办的,2011年惠特曼离世后,由他的女儿西尔维亚接手经营。这里曾经是艾伦金斯伯格、威廉巴勒斯等“垮掉的一代”作家的聚集地。这里不仅卖书,还能借书。创立之初时,惠特曼还为旅行到此的艺术家和作家们提供住宿。