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Prose: non-fiction, The self, ego, identity, personality
The classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind
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.
Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson, renowned criminologist, TV and radio personality, was one of the most popular and respected writers on both criminology and psychology. He was the best-selling author of more than sixty books, including The Outsider, The Criminal History of Mankind, A Plague of Murder, The Mammoth Book of True Crime and many other works of non-fiction and fiction. He died in 2013.
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