A first novel by the author of the much argued The Outsider () and Religion and the Rebel () is based on the idea of a mass murderer in relation to society and is projected through the sudden friendship of writer Gerard Sorme and the wealthy homosexual Austin Nunne. Intrigued by Nunne, Sorme breaks out of his life of inaction, becomes a part of that circle which has known Nunne for. Ignored in assessments of post-war English fiction, and a forgotten classic of London fiction, Ritual In the Dark is, however, the favourite of many fans and scholars and also, it appears, of Colin Wilson himself: ' it is my most solidly constructed and satisfactory novel,' he wrote in , 'It is, at all events, my own favourite.' Also republished in , it is hoped that this will encourage a reassessment by a new . Ritual in the Dark is a novel in the existentialist vein and could be read profitably along with Sartre’s Nausea and Camus’ The Stranger. Wilson is not a pessimist about his own life. He seems fundamentally a happy, self-confident man who sees the human problem (his own problem) as the need to /5(5).
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Ritual in the Dark is a novel in the existentialist vein and could be read profitably along with Sartre’s Nausea and Camus’ The Stranger. Wilson is not a pessimist about his own life. He seems fundamentally a happy, self-confident man who sees the human problem (his own problem) as the need to wake up and live fully alive. I picked Colin Wilson’s serial-killer novel Ritual in the Dark from a reading list compiled by Mark E. Smith, the late creative director of the Fall. Like the Fall, Ritual in the Dark is perversely British. Uncountable cups of tea are brewed and consumed as the book’s protagonist, an aspiring novelist given more to gabfests than to manic fiction typing, chats with sundry friends, acquaintances and enemies of a recent pal who is discussed by his cohorts as a known homosexual sadist who. Ignored in assessments of post-war English fiction, and a forgotten classic of London fiction, Ritual In the Dark is, however, the favourite of many fans and scholars and also, it appears, of Colin Wilson himself: ' it is my most solidly constructed and satisfactory novel,' he wrote in , 'It is, at all events, my own favourite.' Also republished in , it is hoped that this will encourage a reassessment by a new generation of readers and critics.
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