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The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mindset. First published 30 years ago, it illuminated the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of the Self, but of society as a whole.
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About the Author
Born to a working class English household in 1931, Colin Wilson went from being the "bad boy" of the British literary scene to becoming a wide-ranging historian, novelist, critic, and philosopher. In addition to his classic study of rebellion, The Outsider, Wilson distinguished himself as one of the most prolific and grounded historians of occult and esoteric movements. A rebel until the end, Wilson later in life wrote stirring intellectual defenses of optimism, challenging the dark vogue of figures such as Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett. He died in Cornwall, England, in late 2013.
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"An exhaustive, luminously intelligent study...a real contribution to our understanding of our deepest predicament." —Philip Toynbee
"The newest prodigy on the English literary scene, Mr. Wilson came out of nowhere from the outside. He walked into literature...as a man walks into his own house ... filled with assimilated erudition ... Where young Wilson got his knowledge baffled the critics. That he had there could be no mistake." —The New York Times
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- PublisherPan Books
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0330230018
- ISBN 13 9780330230018
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Wilson, Colin. The outsider / including a new postscript for this edition. Unabridged. London: Pan Books Limited, 1971. Fourth printing. Paperback, Good. White covers a little age-discoloured, with minor shelfwear. Binding strong. 332pp. Pages lightly tanned, contents clean and bright. Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. Gollancz published the 24-year-old Wilson's The Outsider in 1956. The work examines the role of the social "outsider" in seminal works by various key literary and cultural figures such as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William James, T. E. Lawrence, Vaslav Nijinsky and Vincent van Gogh and discusses Wilson's perception of social alienation in their work. The book became a best-seller and helped popularise existentialism in Britain. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1730215900772
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