![]() ![]() What began as a diary became a fragmented attempt to discover why Wilson " totally cut off from the rest of society," – and why "an inner compulsion had forced me into this position of isolation". Wilson was thinking about Camus, Dostoevsky and Sartre, but also about himself: he worked by day in the British Library by night he was sleeping rough on Hampstead Heath, separated from his family, his girlfriend and a sense of creative purpose. His most famous predecessor is Albert Camus, if you accept that something in the original French title L'Etranger has been lost in translation: Wikipedia says "The Stranger" Penguin publishing house says "The Outsider".Ĭamus was an inspiration for many authors, not least England's Colin Wilson whose own book The Outsider is a deeply personal critical appreciation of the alienated hero in literature. ![]() S tephen King is not the first novelist to write a book called The Outsider. ![]()
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