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Outsider Revisionism
Dear Editor: I enjoyed the article in the last issue of this magazine on Colin Wilson, and also enjoy Wilson’s writings. I agree with the author, Vaughan Rapatahana, that Wilson has been unfairly neglected in the USA and England and deserves a wider audience (and I would be curious to know what other countries the author meant when he said Wilson was “vitally popular elsewhere”). However, the explanation for Wilson’s neglect cannot be solely that he has several public persona corresponding to his wide range of interests, or, as Mr Rapatahana puts it, “Wilson is something of a Hydra.” As Wilson has himself recounted, in-between the publication of his first and second books, there was a personal scandal which caused his public image to plunge like a meteor from the sky.
His first book, The Outsider (1956), was published to enormous acclaim, and became a bestseller for that year.
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