The late Colin Wilson appears at the head
of this afternoon's New York Times  obituaries —

Margalit Fox's description this afternoon of 
Wilson's first book, from 1956—

"The Outsider  had an aim no less ambitious
than its scope: to delineate the meaning of
human existence."

This suggests a review of Log24 posts on "The Zero Theorem"
that yields—

IMAGE- Barry Mazur: 'A good story is an end in itself.'

See also Log24 on the date of Wilson's death.

Related material: Devil's Night, 2011.