Saturday, December 28, 2013
Colin Wilson: A Storied Life
Do you ― or does your father ― remember when John F. Kennedy died? How about C.S. Lewis? (Hint: it was the same day.) As science fiction author Ken MacLeod observes in Aeon, Colin Wilson also had "the misfortune" of dying on the same day as more famous man ― Nelson Mandela. Still for a self-taught working-class author, Wilson made some waves, beginning with his first book at age 24, The Outsider, hailed ― if only for the moment ― as Britain's answer to Sartre and Camus.
Labels:
Colin Wilson,
Ken McLeod,
literature,
nonfiction,
philosophy,
r.i.p.
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