Volume 53, Number 1 · January 12, 2006
The Unquiet American
By Pankaj Mishra
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
by Lewis M. Dabney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 639 pp., $35.00
In May 1945, Edmund Wilson called upon George Santayana at the Hospital of the Blue Nuns in Rome. The meeting did not begin well. Before leaving America earlier that year to report on the 'wreckage' of the war for The New Yorker, Wilson had received an inscribed copy of the first volume of Santayana's memoir Persons and Places; his review of the second volume appeared in America while he was in Europe. But the Spanish-born philosopher, who had left America in 1912 after almost four decades in the Boston area, appeared not to know who Wilson was.
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