Colin Wilson
The Author Has Not Yet Read My Masterpiece
Success Stories: Literature and the Media in England, 1950-1959
By Harry Ritchie
Faber & Faber 256pp £12.50 order from our bookshop
When the editor asked me if I would like to review a book on the fifties, he omitted to mention that its longest – and by far its most amusing – section is an extremely detailed attack on me. I made that discovery rather belatedly when I heard my youngest son tittering as he read it. When I asked him what was so funny, he read aloud: ‘Why did such a patently bad and objectionable book as The Outsider receive such praise?’ During the next couple of weeks, other members of my family read it; and I gathered from their chortles that it must contain some pretty insulting stuff.
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