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Needs mention of trilogy

The Outsider was the first Colin Wilson book that began a trilogy of books about The Outsider. The other two books need mention here. The titles of the other two books escape me at the moment, so I cannot make the change myself.

I thought there were six books instead of three about the Outsider? Fl1942 02:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There were: 1) The Outsider; 2) Religion and the Rebel; 3) The Origins of the Sexual Impulse; 4) The Strength to Dream; 5) The Age of Defeat (aka The Stature of Man); 6) Beyond The Outsider. 70.186.172.214 (talk) 11:22, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Needs work

It is a very stubby article. Needs a bit of expansion, if I had my book with me in college, I would be working on it right now. 63.100.44.98 15:13, 4 February 2007 (UTC) -Right, I just got this for crimbo so I can do something here. Just as soon as I get round to reading it... Totnesmartin 12:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I want to know whether Colin Wilson is still alive or not and what are his recent publications? SGM. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.95.55.241 (talk) 11:44, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He is alive and well and in recent years has turned his attention to writing some biographies of people like Aleister Crowley, Cark Jung, G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, Rudolf Steiner, and has some autobiographical material that he has recently released. 70.186.172.214 (talk) 11:21, 1 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Corrections

I have this book and find it significant having read a variety of the books and authors covered in the book. I have not read the book all the way through, but wonder if it is not Kafka's "insect-man" in Kafka's Metamorphose rather than Dostoyevsky's. Hopefully I can come back and make the change looking in Mr Wilson's book. --Pete (talk) 07:28, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CONFUSION

I read this as a teen, and remember it as a nonfiction work, as it is described in the opening.

It is very confusing, then, to read of "characters brought to the fore" or "the hero listens to a song in a cafe." If this is a nonfiction work that has "characters" and a "hero," some explanation of this is necessary. Bustter (talk) 22:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

more confusion: "These include Steppenwolf and even the hero of Hesse's book of the same name" If Steppenwolf does not always refer to Hesse's book of "the same name," then to what does it refer? The band didn't yet exist, that I know. Bustter (talk) 22:15, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]