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Condition: Good. Cover shows minor edge wear and gentle surface rubbing; spine firm, pages mildly toned.
Subtitled A Study of Sexual Outsiders, the work blends biography, literary analysis, and philosophical speculation. Wilson examines figures from the Marquis de Sade to Yukio Mishima, D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, and others, tracing what he terms the deviants of genius those whose erotic lives and psychological excesses, rather than being aberrations, reflect heightened energies of imagination and will.
The result is both a provocative social document and a continuation of the existential themes first explored in his classic The Outsider (1956). As Anthony Burgess quipped in The Observer: You will enjoy this strange book because it is very firmly about sex.
