A very ultimate dream

Author's name: Colin Wilson Publisher: Al-Mada for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2015 Literary classification: autobiography Brief about the book: Colin Wilson's autobiography and translated by the writer Lutfia Al-Dulaimi who says about the book: The writer Colin Wilson had published his first autobiography titled "Journey Towards the Beginning: A Mental Autobiography" in the late sixties of the last century, but there are differences between it and his first autobiography and his second titled "Dream with the utmost purpose": the first autobiography was burdened with many details concerning his relationships with others in line with the late youthful impulsiveness that was burning in the soul of the writer, while his second autobiography was more focused on the space of ideas that shaped the writer's personality and from which he drew his fountain of inspiration throughout his eventful life filled with many intellectual pursuits. Since the philosopher and problematic novelist left us in late 2013, many writings have surfaced that memorialize the man in a neutral manner and with a protocol critique of his works without engaging in many critical pursuits except for a few references to his works written by journalists or book reviewers. However, some of these studies were written by eminent philosophers who hold a place in the British academic environment, which makes these writings reasonably acceptable and encourages their reading by fans of the late writer or others. And I see this reason alone as sufficient and a motive to translate works of this kind, far from hurried writings or those that echo the echoes of previous decades in the 1950s and 1960s, and to place Colin Wilson in the category of leftist emotionality in his political guise, as is familiar in our Arab environment, where one of two things prevails: blind love for the writer to the point of idolizing him and making him an icon similar to the Sartrean icon and others from the icons of traditional existentialist thought in its Francophone version, or an incomprehensible hatred towards the man that leans towards ideological motives driven by political reasons, despite the fact that the man was inclined towards guided, rationalized socialism — prevalent in Britain, Scandinavia, and the European continent in general — which he shared with Bernard Shaw: the beloved writer to Wilson's mind and soul. Wilson's philosophical, literary, and psychological pursuits are fundamentally devoid of any partisan movement under a specific political banner.