The Outsider Author:Colin Wilson When Colin Wilson was 24, THE OUTSIDER electrified eminent critics, many of whom envied his grasp of criticism and comparison. Ranging through the lives and writings of Bernard Shaw, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, William Blake, Hermann Hesse, and many others, he defined numerous very modern dilemmas in the character of The Outsider, who, in ... more »his alienation and introversion, "stand for Truth."« less