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Early life. Wilson was born on 26 June 1931 in Leicester, [5] the first child of Arthur and Annetta Wilson. His father worked in a shoe factory. [6] At the age of eleven he attended Gateway Secondary Technical School, where his interest in science began to blossom.
Colin Wilson (born June 26, 1931, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 5, 2013, St. Austell, Cornwall, England) was an English novelist and writer on philosophy, sociology, music, literature, and the occult.
An appreciation of the author Colin Wilson, philosopher, critic and novelist (1931-2013)
About C.W. “Good writers have two things in common; they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.” [Nietzsche, Human, all too Human, 1886]. Buy this book. Judged by Nietzsche’s criteria, Colin Wilson is a good writer. In his native Britain the mainstream critical reaction after ...
Aug 26, 2024 · “We who live today have a deep sense that there is nothing left for us to do” wrote Robert Musil in his masterpiece The Man Without Qualities, a novel which Colin Wilson regarded – correctly – as superior to Proust and Joyce. “It has a tough, intellectual, unemotional quality that I find profoundly satisfying” he once commented.
He left school at 16, worked in factories and various occupations, and read in his spare time. When Wilson was 24, Gollancz published The Outsider (1956) which examines the role of the social 'outsider' in seminal works of various key literary and cultural figures.
Through the works the lives of various artists—including Kafka, Camus, Eliot, Hemingway, Hesse, Lawrence, Van Gogh, Nijinsky, Shaw, Blake, Nietzsche and Dostoyevski—Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society and society's effect on him.
The Outsider is a 1956 book by English writer Colin Wilson. [1] 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), Hermann Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent van Gogh, Vaslav ...
Colin Wilson (1931-2013) Vaughan Rapatahana remembers the singular English existentialist. Colin Wilson was perhaps England’s only famous existentialist philosopher.
May 27, 2019 · Most casual readers associate Colin Wilson with one book and one book only – his debut, The Outsider. A ‘smash hit’ in rock n’ roll terms (it was 1956, remember), this precociously erudite study of existential alienation still reads well today.
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