by Colin Wilson
NOTES
Chapter One
1. Barbusse, Henri: L’Enfer (tr. John Rodker, London, Joiner & Steele, 1932; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., under the title The Inferno), p. 72.
2. Ibid., p. 12.
Ibid., p. 9.
Ibid., p. 15.
Ibid., p. 39.
6. Ibid., p. 243.
7. Ibid., p. 22.
8. Wells, H. G.; Mind at the End of Its Tether (Heinemann, 1945), p. 1.
9. Ibid., p. 2.
10. Ibid., p. 3.
11. Ibid., p. 4.
12. Ibid., p. 34.
13. Sartre, Jean-Paul: The Diary of Antoine Roquentin (tr. Lloyd Alexander, London, John Lehmann, 1949; New York, New Directions under the title Nausea), p. 8.
14. Ibid., pp. 12ff.
5. Ibid., p. 17.
Ibid., p. 31.
Ibid., p. 34.
18. Ibid., p. 169.
19. Ibid., pp. 170ff.
Chapter Two
1. Camus, Albert: The Outsider (tr. Stuart Gilbert, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1946; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., under the title The Stranger), p. 9.
2. Ibid., p. 9.
3. Ibid., p. 23.
4. Ibid., pp. 40ff. page 29,
5. Ibid., p. 81.
6. Ibid., pp. 102fT.
7. Ibid., pp. 103-4.
8. Hemingway, Ernest: First Forty-Nine Stories (Cape, 1944), p. 137.
9. Ibid., pp. 142fT.
10. The Essential Hemingway (Cape, 1947), p. 15.
11. Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms (London, Cape, 1953; New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons), p. 17.
12. Ibid., p. 33.
13. Ibid., p. 329.
14.Hemingway, Ernest: First Forty-Nine Stories (Cape, 1944), p. 247.
15.Ibid., pp. 457-8.
16. Ibid., p. 412. (First published as a chapter of Death in the Afternoon.)
Ibid., p. 413.
Ibid., p. 416.
19. Sampson, George: Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, p. 996. 20. Granville-Barker, Harley: The Secret Life (London, Sidgwick Jackson, 1928; Boston, Little, Brown & Company), p. 12.
21. Ibid., p. 14.
22. Ibid., p. 31.
23. Ibid., p. 33.
24. Ibid., p. 31.
25. Granville-Barker, Harley: The Secret Life (London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928; Boston, Little, Brown & Company), p. 88.
Ibid., p. 87.
Ibid., pp. 87ff.
28. Ibid., p. 86.
29. Ibid., p. 152.
Ibid., p. 158.
Ibid., p. 118.
32. Ibid., p. 113.
Chapter Three
1. Sir John Suckling.
2. Novalis: Heinrich von Ofterdingen.
3. Joyce, James: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (London, Cape, 1952; New York, The Viking Press, Inc.), pp. 72ff.
4. Ibid., p. 271.
5. Hesse, Hermann: Demian (Holt, 1948), pp. 2-3.
6. Ibid., pp. 4-5.
7. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
8.Ibid., p. 28.
9. Hesse, Hermann: Steppenwolf (tr. Basil Creighton; London, Seeker, 1929; New York, Henry Holt and Company, Inc.), pp.. 55, 57. IT).
10. Ibid., p. 93.
Ibid., p. 94.
Ibid., p. 95.
Ibid., p. 96.
14. Ibid., p. 96.
Ibid., pp. 96,97,98.
Ibid., p. 101.
17. Ibid., pp. 210, 211, 212.
18. Ibid., p. 322..
19. Hesse, Hermann: Magister Ludi (The Bead Game) (tr. Mervyn Saville; London, Aldus Publications, 19.49; New York, Henry Holt and Company, Inc.), p. 38. 20. Steppenwolf (ed. cit.), pp. 47-8.
Chapter Four
1. T. E. Lawrence by His Friends (Cape, 1937), p. 272.
2. Lawrence, T. E.: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Cape, 1952, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.), p. 37.
3. Ibid., p. 38.
4. Ibid., p. 41.
5. Ibid., p. 41.
6. Ibid., p. 527.
7. Ibid., p. 117.
8. T. E. Lawrence by His Friends (Cape, 1937), pp. 284ff.
9.Lawrence, T. E.: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (London, Cape, 1952; New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.), p. 580.
Ibid., p. 284.
Ibid., p. 521.
Ibid., p. 582.
13. Ibid., p. 566.
14. Ibid., p. 421.
15. Ibid., p. 461.
16. Ibid., p. 477.
17. Ibid., p. 477.
18. Ibid.
19. Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky (London, Gollancz, 1937; New York, Simon and Schuster, Inc.), p. 64.
20. Nijinsky, Romola: Nijinsky (London, Gollancz, 1933; New York, Simon and Schuster, Inc.), p. 408.
21.Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky (London, Gollancz, 1937; New York, Simon and Schuster, Inc.), p. 21.
22.Ibid., p. 60.
23. Ibid., p. 44.
Ibid., p. 45.
Ibid., p. 49.
Ibid., p. 54.
Ibid., p. 47.
Ibid., p. 54.
29. Ibid., p. 49.
Ibid., p. 66.
Ibid., p. 40.
32. Ibid., p. 22.
Ibid., p. 202.
Ibid., p. 196.
35. Ibid., pp. 201-2.
36. Ibid., p. 136.
37. Hulme, T. E.: Speculations (London, Kegan Paul, 1926; New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company), p. 53.
38. Ibid.
39. Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky (London, Gollancz, 1937; New York, Simon and Schuster, Inc.), p. 197.
Chapter Five
1. James, William: The Varieties of Religious Experience (Longmans, Green, 1903), pp. 132ff.
2. Death’s Jest Book.’
3. ‘Ode to a Nightingale.’
‘City of Dreadful Night.’
The Waste Land.’
6. Youth and Other Stories (Blackwood, 1922), p. 170.
7. James, William: The Varieties of Religious Experience (Longmans, Green, 1903), pp. 158ff. 8. Society the Redeemed form of Man (Boston, 1879), p. 43ff.
9. The Varieties of Religious Experience (ed. cit.), p. 160.
10. Kafka, Franz: In the Penal Settlement (Seeker & Warburg, 1949).
11. q.v. Conrad Bonifazi’s Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (Rockliff, 1953).
12. James, William: (op. cit.), pp. 173ff.
13. Nietzsche: Joyful Wisdom (tir. T. Connor; London, T. N. Foulis, 1910; New York, The Macmillan Company), p. 7.
14. Reyburn, H. A.: Nietzsche (Macmillan, 1948), p. 66.
15. Halevy, D.: Life of Nietzsche (Fisher-Unwin, 1914), p. 53.
16. Nietzsche: Birth of Tragedy (tr. W. A. Hauseman; London, Allen & Unwin, 1909; New York, The Macmillan Company),?. 26.
17. Ibid., p. 232.
18. Nietzsche: Joyful Wisdom: (ed. cit.), p. 1.
19. Ibid., p. 5.
Ibid., p. 7.
Ibid., p. 9.
22. Blake, William: Complete Works (Nonesuch Edition, 1927; New York, Oxford University Press), pp. 322, 603.
23.Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra (tr. A. Tille and M. MBozman, London, Everyman, 1946; New York, The Macmillan Company), p. 6.
24. Ibid., p. 7.
25. Nietzsche: Ecce Homo (tr. Anthony M. Ludovici, London, T. N. Foulis, 1911; New York, The Macmillan Company), p. 2.
26. Thus Spake Zarathustra: (ed. cit), p. 7.
27. Ibid., p. 9.
28. Rilke, R. M.: Malte Laurids Brigge (tr. J. B. Leishman; London, Hogarth Press, 1950; New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.), p. 99ff.
29. Thus Spake Zarathustra: (ed. cit.), p. 54.
Ibid., p. 55.
Ibid., p. 102. 32. Ibid., p. 129.
Chapter Six
1. Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace (tr. L. and A. Maude; London, World’s Classics, 1922-3; New York, Heritage Press), Vol. 1, p. 460.
Ibid., Vol. Ill, p. 194.
Maude, Aylmer: Life of Tolstoy (London, World’s Classics,
1930; New York, Oxford University Press)
, Vol. I, p. 384.
4.Ibid., p. 385.
5. q.v. Aylmer Maude’s Life (London, World’s Classics, 1939; New York, Oxford University Press), Chapter XI.
6. Tolstoy, Alexei: Memoirs of a Madman (tr. A. Maude; World’s Classics), pp. 210ff.
7. Ibid.
8. Maude, Aylmer: (op. cit.), p. 385.
9. Tolstoy, Alexei: The Death of Ivan llytch (tr. A. Maude, London, World’s Classics, 1935; New York, Dodd, Mead &Company), pp. Iff.
10. Newman, J. H.: Apologia (Sheed & Ward, 1946).
11. Dostoevsky, Fiodor: Notes from Underground (tr. C. J.Hogarth, London, Everyman Library, 1953; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.), p. 12.
12. Ibid., p. 15.
13. A Treasury of Russian Literature (tr. B. G. Guerney, London, Bodley Head, 1948; New York, The Vanguard Press), p. 460.
14. Blake, William: ‘Marriage of Heaven and Hell,’ Collected Works (ed. cit.), p. 191.
15. Blake, William: Collected Works (ed. cit.), p. 564.
16. Quoted from Dostoevsky by N. Berdyaev (Sheed & Ward,
1936), pp. 53ff.
17. Dostoevsky, Fiodor: (op. cit.), p. 41.
18. Dostoevsky, Fiodor: Crime and Punishment (tr. Constance Garnett, London, Heinemann, 1945; New York, The Macmillan Company), pp. 138-9.
19. Berdyaev: Dostoevsky (ed. cit.), p. 97.
20. Crime and Punishment (ed. cit.), p. 457.
21. Dostoevsky, Fiodor: The Devils (tr. D. Magarshack; Penguin, 1953), pp. 665ff.
22. Crime and Punishment (ed. cit.), p. 142.
23. The Devils (ed. cit.), p. 612.
24. Ibid., p. 243.
Revelation x.5.
Dostoevsky, Fiodor: The Idiot (tr. E. M. Martin, London, Everyman, 1953; New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.), p. 224.
27. The Devils (ed. cit.), p. 589.
Chapter Seven
1. Dostoevsky, Fiodor: The Brothers Karamazov (tr. Constance Garnett, London, Heinemann, 1948; New York, The Mac-millan Company), p. 235.
2. Ibid., p. 236.
3. Ibid., p. 253.
4. The Devils (ed. cit.), pp. 613-14.
5. The Brothers Karamazov (ed. cit.), p. 297.
6. Ibid., p. 537.
7. Crime and Punishment (ed. cit.), p. 142.
8. The Brothers Karamazov (ed. cit.), p. 683.
9. Blake, William: Collected Works (London, Nonesuch, 1927;
New York, Oxford University Press), p. 1068.
10. Mann, Thomas: Doktor Faustus (tr. H. T. Lowe-Porter, London, Seeker & Warburg, 1949; New York, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., under the title Doctor Faustus), p. 147.
11. Thus Spake-Zarathustra (ed. cit.), p. 64.
12. Hemingway, Ernest: Short Stories (ed. cit.), p. 78. (In the original Esquire publication of the story (1936) Hemingway wrote: ‘Poor Scott’. Later, for book publication, this was changed to ‘Poor Julian’.)
Chapter Eight
1. Blake, William: Collected Works (ed. cit.), p. 844.
2. Sartre, Jean-Paul: Existentialism and Humanism (London, Methuen, 1948; New York, Philosophical Library), p. 31.
3. Fox, George: Journals (Cambridge, 1950), pp. 71ff.
4. Ibid., p. 3.
5. Ibid., p. 3.
6. Ibid., p. 4.
7. Ibid., p. 4.
8. Ibid., p. 5.
9. Ibid., p. 6.
10. Ibid., p. 10.
11. Ibid., p. 11.
12. Rilke, R. M.: Duino Elegies (tr. Leishman and Spender, London, Hogarth Press, 1939; New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.), p. 91.
13. Fox, George: (op. cit.), p. 12..
14. Ibid., p. 16.
15. Ibid., pp. 12-13.
16. Ibid., p. 44.
17. Ibid., p. 15.
18. Reyburn, H. A.: Nietzsche (Macmillan, 1948), p. 66.
19. Dowson, Ernest: Poetical Works (Cassell and the Bodley Head, 1934), p. 3.
20. Blake, William: Collected Works (ed. cit.), p. 127.
21. Ibid., p. 78.
22. Ibid., pp. 148-9.
23. Ibid., p. 202.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 563..
Ibid., p. 267
28. Ibid., p. 214.
29. Ibid., p. 197..
30. Ibid., p. 232.
31. Ibid., pp. 207ff..
32. A Buddhist Bible (ed. Dwight Goddard; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1952), p. 235.
33. Blake, William: Collected Works (ed. cit.), p. 173.
34. Ibid., p. 220.
35. Ibid., p. 235..
36. Ibid., p. 554..
37. Ibid., p. 108..
38. Ibid., p. 842.
Steppenwolf (ed. cit.), p. 97.
40 Newman, J. H.: (op. cit.), Book V
41. Blake, William: Collected Works (ed. cit.)
42. Eliot, T. S.: Four Quartets (London, Faber, 1939; New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company), p. 10.
43. Yeats, W. B.: Collected Poems (Macmillan, 1950), p. 283
44. Kierkegaard, S0ren: Either/Or (The Rotation Method): A Kierkegaard Anthology (ed. R. Bretal; Princeton, 1946), pp. 22ff.
Chapter Nine
1. Translation taken from the last chapter of Edmund Wilson’s Axel’s Castle (Scribner’s, 1931).
2. Traherne, Thomas: Centuries of Meditation (Dobell, 1948),
3. Ibid.,pp.*155ff.
4. Yeats, W. B.: Collected Poems: (ed. cit.), p. 62
5. Traherne, Thomas: (op. cit.), p. 284. Page ?<?* n’ ye/ts’ W* R: A Vision (Macmillan, 1936), p. 33.
7. Life of Ramakrishna (Anonymous) (Ramakrishna Math, « ic, o Madras> 1929; Hollywood, Vedanta Press), p. 20.
8. Ibid., pp. 7Iff.
9. The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna (Mylapore, Madras 1947) Index of Hymns, p. 1,043.
10. The Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna (Mylapore, Madras 1947) Hymns, pp. 170, 305-6.
11. James, William (op. cit.)
12. Woodward, F. L.: Sayings of the Buddha (Oxford, 1939) pp. 14ff.
13. Eckhart (ed. Pfeiffer; Watkins, 1947), p. 37.
14. Ouspensky, P. D.: In Search of the Miraculous (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950; New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company),
15. Ibid., p. 218.
16. Poems of St. John of the Cross (tr. E. Allison Peers; Burns, Washburne, 1948), p. 28.
17. Gurdjieff, George; All and Everything (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950; New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company), p. 1,183.
18. Hulme, T. E.: Speculations (London, Kegan Paul, 1926; « via 1ft New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company), p. 265.
19. Chesterton, G. K.: The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Penguin,
Hulme, T. E.: (op. cit.), p. 119.
Ibid., p. 116.
Ibid., p. 77.
23. Eliot, T.S.: Selected Essays (London, Faber, 1932; Brace & Company), p. 440.
24. Hulme, T. E.: (op. cit.), p. 8.
25. Ibid., p. 19.‘P
26. Ibid., p. 17.
27. Ibid., p. 5.
28. Ibid., p. 208.
29. Ibid., p. 123.
30. Ibid , p. 210.
31. ShawGB: Plays (London, Odhams, 1950), p. 962.
32. Hulme, T. E.: (op. cit.), p. 57
33. Shaw G B.: Prefaces (London, Odhams, 1938; New York, Dodd, Mead & Company), p. 541.
34. Hulme, T. E.: (op. cit.), p. 70