The Outsider
A Novel

I must admit, I unknowingly stood unprepared as this book emotionally and essentially intruded upon me. I now feel an acute fear in realizing the damage. It will likely haunt me, or dictate any future understanding I have of myself, and may signify a definitive point in my everlasting development. F......more

I read this in college as part of an American lit class. Until then, I didn't realize how naive and sheltered a life I must've led. This book had a profound impact on my consciousness of what is racism in the US. I had only known racism in the context of my less than two decades of life in how it per......more

"Io non so neppure quello che faccio, infatti non quello che voglio io faccio, ma quello che detesto" Chiesi che mi inviassero l'elenco dei libri lasciati dal defunto Cross Damon. Li ricevetti prima di sera ed ebbi di cosa essere soddisfatto. Avevo trovato la prima vera traccia ed erano i suoi Nietz......more

Wright’s second behemoth suffers from an abundance of Dostoevskian noodling and a fondness for tubthumping in the manner of late H.G. Wells. This takes the form of antihero Damon Cross launching into frenzies of eloquent discourse when being interrogated by twitchy Commies and humpbacked DAs in a ma......more

Great novel by 1950's Harlem Renaissance black writer Richard Wright. Its an expressly philosophical book that includes the ideas of Nietzsche, Sartre, Kierkegaard and more. The story of a black existentialist bordering on nihilism who is torn between fascists and communists. It blurs the line betwe......more