The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1988. The book expounds on the nature of fiction, drama and the novel in its relationship to sexual imagination and sex crimes.
The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1988. The book contains biographies of the Marquis de Sade, D. H. Lawrence, A. C. Swinburne, James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Henry Miller, Paul Tillich, Arthur Koestler, Percy Grainger, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Charlotte Bach.
It is a good source of raw material for a new theory of sex, but Wilson attempts no such synthesis.
This does indeed make the book fascinating. In fact, the book could well be entitled "A History of Pornography," or more generally, "A History of Sex in Western Literature. But this is NOT what the book is really about. It is a good source of raw material for a new theory of sex, but Wilson attempts no such synthesis.
Colin Wilson was born on 26 June 1931, in Leicester, England. The book was grouped with the English version of the Beats. He considered himself a genius, a born writer, and an outsider, and left school at the age of sixteen. During the next few years he drifted and traveled around England and Continental Europe. An enormously prolific writer, having written to date over 80 major works on a wide variety of subjects: philosophy, religion, occult and supernatural phenomenea, music, sex, crime and critical theory.
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Colin Wilson is one of the most prolific, versatile and popular writers at work today. I also owe a debt of gratitude to Kazue Kobata for insights into Mishima. The idea of this book originated in a conversation with my friend, Donald Seaman. He was born in Leicester in 1931, and left school at sixteen. After he had spent years working in a wool warehouse, a laboratory, a plastics factory and a coffee bar, his first book The Outsider was published in 1956. It received outstanding critical acclaim and was an immediate bestseller. Analytical table of contents.
Wilson's 39th book, a provocative history and interpretation of sexual rebellion that allows this most . Bach came to this theory from her study of transvestites; the kicker is that after her death, she was revealed to be Mr. Carl Hajdu, transvestite.
Wilson's 39th book, a provocative history and interpretation of sexual rebellion that allows this most optimistic of authors to once again explicate the theory he's been promoting since The Outsider (1956): that each of us can, by an act of will, wake up from the somnabulism of our lives. Here, as usual, Wilson gazes without flinching at some of the nastiest and least understood of behaviors.
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An amazing investigation into the sexual perversities and preferences of modern-day society.