Dimensions
130 x 200 x 22mm
The Classic Study of Alienation, Creativity and the Modern Mind
'The Outsider' was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956, thrusting its youthful self-educated philosopher author into the front rank of contemporary writers and thinkers. Wilson rationalised 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, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh and Nietzsche, Wilson explored the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society and society's on him.
Nothing has changed in the past forty years to make 'The Outsider' any less relevant. It remains the seminal work on this most persistent of 20th-century preoccupations.
