The Outsider
Colin Wilson
- The
- classic
- study
- of
- alienation,
- creativity
- and
- the
- modern
- mind'Excitingly
- written,
- with
- a
- sense
- of
- revelation'
- GUARDIAN'Exhaustive,
- luminously
- intelligent'
- OBSERVERTHE
- OUTSIDER
- was
- an
- instant
- literary
- sensation
- when
- it
- was
- first
- published
- in
- 1956,
- thrusting
- its
- youthful
- author
- into
- the
- front
- rank
- of
- contemporary
- writers
- and
- thinkers.
- Wilson
- rationalised
- the
- psychological
- dislocation
- so
- characteristic
- of
- Western
- creative
- thinking
- into
- a
- coherent
- theory
- of
- alienation,
- and
- defined
- those
- affected
- by
- it
- as
- a
- type:
- the
- outsider.
- Through
- the
- works
- and
- lives
- of
- various
- artists,
- including
- Kafka,
- Camus,
- Hemingway,
- Hesse,
- Lawrence,
- Van
- Gogh,
- Shaw,
- Nietzsche
- and
- Dostoevsky,
- Wilson
- explored
- the
- psyche
- of
- the
- outsider,
- his
- effect
- on
- society
- and
- society's
- on
- him.Nothing
- that
- has
- happened
- in
- the
- decades
- since
- has
- made
- THE
- OUTSIDER
- any
- less
- relevant;
- it
- remains
- the
- seminal
- work
- on
- this
- most
- persistent
- of
- modern-day preoccupations.
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