The outsider

When the outsider was published for the first time in the mid-1950s, it caused a stir in the global cultural circles, not only because of the author's young age but also because of his major ideas that had not been addressed before. The book still enjoys the interest of the global reader and critic, in addition to being considered an important book for every writer. The book The Outsider by Colin Wilson was published with the translation of Anis Zaki Hassan by Dar Al-Adab as part of distinguished and diverse literary criticism books. About The Outsider book: When Colin Wilson published this book, he was still twenty-four years old... The book, and still does, sparks endless discussions, based on the fact that it addresses, for the first time, a new topic, which is the psychology of the outsider, the person who does not belong to a party or doctrine, dragging his giant shadow in his dark path, sometimes surrendering and sometimes rebellious. Colin Wilson's treatment of this is based on a broad study of the outsider's personality as it appears in the works of great writers and artists, analyzing the effects of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hemingway, Camus, Sartre, Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Lawrence, Henry Barbus, and others in a way that captivates hearts and sheds bright light on the scents of these writers and artists. One critic said that "The Outsider" is the greatest analytical book published in Europe since Spengler's "Decline of the West"... Another said: We can hardly believe that its author is a twenty-four-year-old youth...