5/19/2023 0 Comments The outsider review book![]() ![]() I began writing about it in my journal, trying to pin it down. It was not a position I relished.Yet an inner compulsion had forced me into this position of isolation. It struck me that I was in the position of so many of my favourite characters in fiction: Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, Rilke's Malte Laurids Brigge, the young writer in Hamsun's Hunger: alone in my room, feeling totally cut off from the rest of society. On Christmas Day, 1954, alone in his room, Wilson sat down on his bed and began to write in his journal. Lawrence, Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and George Gurdjieff – Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker ( The Secret Life), Hermann Hesse, T. Wells ( Mind at the End of Its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. ![]() Through the works and lives of various artists – including H. The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson. ![]()
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