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The 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 rationalized 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 past four decades years has made The Outsider any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this most persistent of modern-day preoccupations.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
0753814323 / 9780753814321
Paperback / softback
302.544
06/12/2001
United Kingdom
English
322 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Previous ed.: London: Gollancz, 1956.
A genuine classic by a highly acclaimed, respected, and bestselling, author The Outsider received excellent review coverage on its first publication 'The most remarkable book on which the reviewer has ever had to pass judgement' Listener 'Few first authors have burst upon the world of serious books with such stunning and immediate success' Daily Express 'I am deeply grateful for this astonishing book' Edith Sitwell '[An] extraordinary book ... one of the most remarkable I have read for a long time' Cyril Connolly
A genuine classic by a highly acclaimed, respected, and bestselling, author The Outsider received excellent review coverage on its first publication 'The most remarkable book on which the reviewer has ever had to pass judgement' Listener 'Few first authors have burst upon the world of serious books with such stunning and immediate success' Daily Express 'I am deeply grateful for this astonishing book' Edith Sitwell '[An] extraordinary book ... one of the most remarkable I have read for a long time' Cyril Connolly DSB Literary studies: general, JMH Social, group or collective psychology, JMS The self, ego, identity, personality