Sydney Schiff

Sydney SchiffBritish writer and translator who published under the pseudonym Stephen Hudson and translated the last volume of Marcel Proust's A la Recherche du temps perdu (Time Regained). Together with his wife Violet, Schiff is mainly known for his significant role as facilitator to several major Modernist artists and writers. On 18 May 1922, he hosted the party in Paris that became the only occasion on which Joyce and Proust met. The occasion was the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's comic opera Renard, and guests included Stravinsky himself, Sergei Diaghilev and Pablo Picasso. Dirk Van Hulle and William Brockman

西德尼·希夫（Sydney Schiff）是英国作家与翻译家，以笔名斯蒂芬·哈德逊（Stephen Hudson）发表作品，曾翻译马塞尔·普鲁斯特（Marcel Proust）《追忆似水年华》（A la Recherche du temps perdu，又名《重现的时光》（Time Regained））的最后一卷。希夫与妻子维奥莱特（Violet）一道，主要因作为多位顶尖现代主义艺术家与作家的重要推动者而享有盛名。1922年5月18日，他在巴黎举办的这场派对，成为乔伊斯（Joyce）与普鲁斯特唯一一次会面的场合。该派对同时也是伊戈尔·斯特拉文斯基（Igor Stravinsky）的喜歌剧《狐狸》（Renard）的首演仪式，到场嘉宾包括斯特拉文斯基本人、谢尔盖·佳吉列夫（Sergei Diaghilev）与巴勃罗·毕加索（Pablo Picasso）。本文作者为德克·范·于勒（Dirk Van Hulle）与威廉·布罗克曼（William Brockman）。