Andrew's review of The Outsider
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Starts out with all guns blazing... a wonderfully energetic and boundlessly confident romp through the existential hero's domain. Wilson takes on a big-balled thematic synthesis of the major works of Dostoevsky, Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, Tolstoy, T.S. Eliot and others, with a frenetic style reminiscent of a supremely confident caffeine-fueled college philosophy major. I enjoyed Wilson's exuberance in the beginning as he introduced the concept of the outsider, but I felt that the book gradually started to lose focus and power, until eventually it became not much more than a very convoluted and hastily sketched review of several major writers' works.
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