The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity & the modern mind-set. First published over forty years ago, it made its youthful Author England's most controversial intellectual. The Outsider is an individual...The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity & the modern mind-set. First published over forty years ago, it made its youthful Author England's most controversial intellectual. The Outsider is an individual engaged in an intense self-exploration-a person who lives at the edge, challenges cultural values & "Stands for truth." Born into a world without perspective, where others simply drift thru life, The Outsider creates his own set of rules & lives them in an unsympathetic environment.