The outsider
About this book
The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956.
Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Herman Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky and G. I. Gurdjieff - Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him.
Subjects
CivilizationPhilosophyHistory and criticismLiteratureAlienation (Social psychology)Alienation (Philosophy)Modern LiteratureFISIOLOGIA DE LA CIVILIZACIONBuitenstaandersExistentialism in literatureCivilization, philosophyFiction, general