Book 1982

The outsider

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Publisher: J.P. Tarcher
Language: English
Published: 1982

Civilization
Philosophy
History and criticism
Literature
Alienation (Social psychology)
Alienation (Philosophy)
Modern Literature
FISIOLOGIA DE LA CIVILIZACION

The Outsider is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1956.

Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Herman Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky and G. I. Gurdjieff - Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him.