Fish out of water
Robert Dawidoff, 4 February 1988
The Works of George Santayana. Vol. I: Persons and Places
edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp.
MIT, 761 pp., £24.95, March 1987,0 262 19238 1 Show More
edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp.
MIT, 761 pp., £24.95, March 1987,
George Santayana: A Biography
by John McCormick.
Knopf, 612 pp., $30, August 1988,0 394 51037 2 Show More
by John McCormick.
Knopf, 612 pp., $30, August 1988,
“... George Santayana made himself anything but plain in his writings. Even when he was memorably, aphoristically direct, he toyed with the contrary, the piquing, the enigmatic, the confounding, and got into the habit of regarding even his own obscurity as an emblem of his integrity, as his boast. He meant it to be impossible to lay a glove on him. Santayana is better remembered for some of what he had to say than for anything particular about him or his long life (1863-1952 ... ”
