Shakespeare and Company

莎士比亚书店

独立书店的传奇|世界上最美的书店之一|巴黎有名的文化地标之一 

一段以书结缘的文坛传奇

一个黄金时代的终结与新生

莎士比亚书店：一座由书本垒砌的城堡

巴黎左岸朝圣地，“迷惘的一代”的精神家园，《尤利西斯》由此起航

文人雅士汇聚的据点，英法文学交流中心

莎士比亚书店创始人回忆录，亲历二十世纪文坛传奇

莎士比亚书店今貌

一九一九年，莎士比亚书店在巴黎左岸悄然开张。渐渐地，它成为了人们梦想中的书店——是书店、图书馆、出版社；是银行、邮局、文化沙龙；是文人雅士汇聚的据点，英法文学交流中心，是“迷茫的一代”之精神殿堂。

书店吸引了乔伊斯、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、纪德等诸多作家与艺术家，不仅成为英法文学交流的重心，也成为当时美国“迷茫的一代”的精神殿堂。

一九二二年，书店当时的主人，西尔维亚比奇（Sylvia Beach，1887-1962），以莎士比亚书店之名义出版了当时被欧美各国列为禁书的巨著《尤利西斯》，并于一九五六年写下自传作品《莎士比亚书店》。

西尔维亚以率直风趣的文笔，将繁华热闹的左岸风景徐徐展开：乔伊斯禁书《尤利西斯》的出版盛况；安塞尔《机械芭蕾》的疯狂演出；海明威解放迪皮特朗街的神勇英姿；醉酒差点跳下楼的菲兹杰拉德，拿乌龟捉弄人的纪德......

如今的书店还和从前一模一样，无论外界多么嘈杂浮躁，这里还是那么简单纯粹。

25岁的英国人吉米，出了本诗集，也曾驻店，他说：这个书店让他在如今这个时代仍能“持续做梦，也继续写作”。

今天，我们不能要求其他书店和它一样，但是，莎士比亚书店的精神是任何时代都不可或缺的人文精神。

天堂就是图书馆的模样，书店也可以制造自己的传奇。

With a wealth of archival documents and photographs from Whitman’s collection, and first-hand accounts of encounters and stays at the shop by visitors and residents specifically collected for this publication, the book is a memoir of a place with a magical and warm personality all its own.(Liberty N. Megan Hyperallergic)

Even if you have never entered Shakespeare and Company, this book evokes redolent mustiness, the creaking and crinking of readers shifting in their chairs, the sound of iconic authors turning pages as they read to a rapt audience. It is the familiarity of imagination transporting you to times and places you may or may not have been, and in doing so a sense of this place’s personality becomes undeniably present, so much so that you might feel you were there too when Italo Calvino and Pablo Neruda drank wine from empty tuna tins.(Buzz Poole Lithub)

An English-language bookshop founded by George Whitman on the banks of the Seine in Paris has been hosting writers and selling the occasional book for 65 years. Krista Halverson explores the history of a countercultural institution and the legacy of Sylvia Beach.(The Guardian)

...affectionate tribute...makes you long to live la vie bohème in Paris.(Newsday)

...the biography reads like a multi-faceted oral history and is told in many layers: colored photographs, tumbleweed biographies, recountings from former employees and writers-in-residence. The story it tells is as varied, unique, and romantic as the shop is.(Kelsey Ford The Millions)

With a community over 65 years old comes a great history and an even greater archive... Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart not only examines the bookstore's presence within the city over time, but features works by acclaimed artists associated with the site, like Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette Winterson, among others.(Michael Valinsky OUT Magazine)

读者的真实评价

“莎士比亚书店”被誉为“世界上最美的书店”之一

巴黎的文化地标和全世界独立书店的标杆

至今仍让全世界的爱书人津津乐道

从它诞生开始，就在机缘巧合下吸引了乔伊斯、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、纪德、拉尔博、瓦乐希、安太尔等作家与艺术家，不仅成为英语和法语文学交流的重心，也是当时美国“迷惘的一代”流连忘返的精神殿堂。

本书是书店创办者毕奇小姐的回忆录，书中不仅讲述了书店经营中的欢喜、哀愁、成就、遗憾和与很多知名作家交往中的细节，也讲述了二十世纪二三十年代里的文化和社会变迁。

一个单纯的爱书人西尔维亚

看遍作家百态，尝尽人世冷暖，见证一段以书结缘的文坛传奇

George Whitman opened his bookstore in a tumbledown 16th-century building just across the Seine from Notre-Dame in 1951, a decade after the original Shakespeare and Company had closed. Run by Sylvia Beach, it had been the meeting place for the Lost Generation and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses. (This book includes an illustrated adaptation of Beach's memoir.) 

Since Whitman picked up the mantle, Shakespeare and Company has served as a home-away-from-home for many celebrated writers, from Jorge Luis Borges to Ray Bradbury, A.M. Homes to Dave Eggers, as well as for young authors and poets. Visitors are invited not only to read the books in the library and to share a pot of tea, but sometimes also to live in the shop itself - all for free. More than 30,000 people have stayed at Shakespeare and Company, fulfilling Whitman's vision of a 'socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore'. Through the prism of the shop's history, the book traces the lives of literary expats in Paris from 1951 to the present, touching on the Beat Generation, civil rights, May '68 and the feminist movement - all while pondering that perennial literary question, 'What is it about writers and Paris?'.

西尔维亚毕奇（Sylvia Beach，1887-1962）

一八八七年生于美国巴尔的摩，一九一九年在巴黎左岸开设“莎士比亚书店”，吸引了乔伊斯、海明威、菲茨杰拉德、纪德等诸多作家与艺术家，不仅成为英法文学交流的重心，也成为当时美国“迷茫的一代”的精神殿堂。

一九二二年，以莎士比亚书店之名义出版了当时被欧美各国列为禁书的巨著《尤利西斯》；一九四一年德军占领巴黎后，因不愿把最后一本《尤利西斯》买给德国人，且迅速转移书店而被捕入狱；出狱后，于一九五六年写下自传作品《莎士比亚书店》，一九六二年逝于巴黎。

Krista Halverson is the director of Shakespeare and Company bookstore's publishing venture. 

Previously, she was the managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, the art and literary quarterly published by Francis Ford Coppola, which has won several National Magazine Awards for Fiction and numerous design prizes. She was responsible for the magazine's art direction, working with guest designers including Lou Reed, Kara Walker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Zaha Hadid, Wim Wenders and Tom Waits, among others. Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published in 1985. 

In 1992 she was one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She has won numerous awards and is published around the world. Her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, was an international bestseller. 

Her latest novel, The Gap of Time, is a "cover version" of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.Sylvia Whitman is the owner of Shakespeare and Company bookstore, which her father opened in 1951. She took on management of the shop in 2004, when she was 23, and now co-manages the bookstore with her partner, David Delannet. Together they have opened an adjoining cafe, as well as launched a literary festival, a contest for unpublished novellas and a publishing arm.

By (author)  Krista Halverson，Jeanette Winterson

Format Hardback | 384 pages

Dimensions 159 x 240 x 36mm | 1,020g

Publication date 27 Sep 2016

Publisher Shakespeare and Company

Publication City/Country Paris, France

Language English

ISBN10 109610100I

ISBN13 9791096101009