The Masks of Loren Eiseley

Discontented with his personal history, the essayist and nature writer Loren Corey Eiseley invented his own which, however fictitious, enabled him to operate in the real world. Skillful projections of the self, almost all of the autobiographical writing constitutes a series of masks. While most nonfiction writers do their best to conceal their troubles, Eiseley made books out of his. Pain, beautifully rendered pain, became his leitmotif, the narrative shrouded in that ineffable melancholy the Spanish call triste

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