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Colin Wilson

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British writer and philosopher (1931–2013)

Person · Open Library

Born
26 June 1931
Died
5 December 2013
Works
397

Top works

  • Colin Wilson's "Lulu" '
  • ما بعد اللامنتمي
  • القفص الزجاجي
  • La cage de verre
  • الشعر والصوفية

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1934-06-09
Active to
1984-01-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
80
Total plays
718

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Quotes

  • I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider. If I was offered anything like the Nobel Prize for Literature, I'd find it an extremely difficult conflict because I'd be basically disinclined to accept.
  • The Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol — brighter than my students at university.
  • The Outsider’s case against society is very clear. All men and women have these dangerous, unnamable impulses, yet they keep up a pretense, to themselves, to others; their respectability, their philosophy, their religion, are all attempts to gloss over, to make civilized and rational something that is savage, unorganized, irrational. He is an Outsider because he stands for truth.
  • There certainly is self division. The man who watches a woman undressing has the red eyes of an ape; yet the man who sees two young lovers, really alone for the first time, who brings out all the pathos, the tenderness and uncertainty when he tells about it, is no brute; he is very much human. And the ape and the man exist in one body; and when the ape's desires are about to be fulfilled, he disappears and is succeeded by the man, who is disgusted with the ape's appetite.
  • The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
  • What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.

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Key facts

Born
Colin Henry Wilson , ( 1931-06-26 ) 26 June 1931, Leicester , Leicestershire, England
Died
5 December 2013 (2013-12-05) (aged 82), St Austell , Cornwall, England
Occupation
Writer
Nationality
British
Period
Active: 1956–2013, 20th century
Genre
Non-fiction Fiction Paranormal Existentialism Positive psychology
Literary movement
Angry young men
Notable works
The Outsider The Occult: A History

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

Wilson World – Let’s talk about art and literature

colinwilsonworld.co.uk

Wilson World is one of the leading online blogs when it comes to the subjects of art and literature. This is a reference and a resource platform for artists and aficionados in art and literature. We recognize that this is a very vibrant industry yet there aren’t many platforms in the online space where art lovers can access informative and insightful content when it comes to matters of art. This is the main motivation behind the establishment of Wilson World. It doesn’t matter whether you are just new to art and literature or whether you have more experience in this field this is a platform which is full of insightful information for everyone in this space.

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Encyclopedic overview

Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colin Wilson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.