What is The Outsider (Colin Wilson)?
{{italictitle}} '''''The Outsider''''' is a 1956 book by English writer, [[Colin Wilson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://isbndb.com/d/book/the_outsider_a08.html|title=The Outsider|access-date=22 March 2009|publisher=J.P. Tarcher|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604132442/http://isbndb.com/d/book/the_outsider_a08.html|archive-date=4 June 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Mainly through the works of [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky|Dostoyevsky]], [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]], [[Albert Camus|Camus]] and [[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre]], Wilson explores the [[psyche]] of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him. The writers and artists he considers include [[H. G. Wells]] (''Mind at the end of its tether''), [[T. S. Eliot]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Hermann Hesse]], [[T. E. Lawrence]], [[Vincent van Gogh]], [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], [[George Bernard Shaw]], [[William Blake]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], and George [[Gurdjieff]]. The overriding theme linking these writers is the theme of [[anomie]], [[nihilism]], or [[alienation]] from society. == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Outsider, The}} [[Category:Political books]] [[Category:1956 books]] [[Category:English literature]]