Pedro Henríquez Ureña y Jorge Mañach : primeros traductores de Santayana al español

Abstract

In this paper, the author traces the origin of George Santayana’s writings —the Spanish intellectual who published his oeuvre in English, including the book comprising miscellaneous texts Diálogos en el limbo (1941). The author discovers that the first translations of Santayana’s work into Spanish were by the Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña (1884-1946) and by the Cuban intellectual Jorge Mañach (1898-1961), published, respectively, in México Moderno (1922) and 1927 revista de avance (1927). Because these writings had been overlooked, the first translations of Santayana’s work had been erroneously considered to be from 1933, by the Spanish critic Antonio Marichalar (1893-1973).