Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

The play, first staged in 1962, delves into the marital strife of George and Martha, a couple who draw a younger couple, Nick and Honey, into their bitter and frustrated relationship. The evening exposes the dysfunction of their over twenty-year marriage, blurring the lines between reality and illusion. The play is a critique of American society's illusions of prosperity and equality, and it explores universal themes such as identity, representation, and the future.

In 'The Outsider,' Colin Wilson examines the psyche of the Outsider through the lives and works of various literary and cultural figures such as Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The book delves into the Outsider's experience of dislocation and his struggle to find meaning and purpose in a world that seems devoid of it. Wilson argues that the Outsider is a metaphysical man who seeks a transcending meaning and purpose for human existence, often feeling isolated and disconnected from society. The book is both a study of the Outsider's predicament and an impassioned call for a new form of existentialism that could provide a satisfying and objective religious understanding of life.

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