is this good?

mark e smith likes him so probably

>>9752794
Yes.
I'm reading it now. I feel like he misunderstood the ending of Siddhartha but other than that it's fucking great.

>>9752794
It's a classic study of alienation, creativity and the modern mind.

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>>9752794
STOP NAMING BOOKS ''THE OUTSIDER'!

>>9752794
I enjoyed it and read it before I really got into Hesse, Camus, Dostoevsky or Nitchee. I had read Hemingway before but saw him in a different light after reading The Outsider.

What the hell is he talking about when he mentions the "Outsider?" Is it some ontological concept, some deity? What constitutes its essence? And why does he bring it up so much?

>>9752860
Just a man alienated from society.

>>9752867
Not so much society as reality and himself. Someone who "sees too much and too deep."

>>9752794
It's a good introduction to existentialist philosophy and fiction. More advanced readers might find it a bit basic. I read it at 19, which I think was a good age to read it because I was just starting to get into Dostoevsky and Nietzsche and the book made me excited about reading more of them