When Colin Wilson published this book, "The Outsider," he was still only twenty-four years old...

The book has sparked, and continues to spark, endless discussions, due to the fact that it addresses, for the first time, a new topic: the psychology of the non-belonging person, the person who does not belong to a party or a creed, and who drags his giant shadow along his dark path, sometimes surrendering and other times rebelling.

Colin Wilson undertakes this treatment based on a comprehensive study of the outsider as it appears in the works of great writers and artists. He analyzes the works of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Lawrence, Henri Barbusse, and others in a profoundly moving analysis, shedding light on the essence of these writers and artists.

One critic said that "The Outsider" is the greatest book of analysis published in Europe since Spengler's "The Fall of the West"... Another said: We can hardly believe that its author was a twenty-four-year-old boy...