Invisible Man: Ralph Ellison
The lives of countless millions are evoked in Ralph Ellison's superb portrait of a generation of black Americans, Invisible
Man. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by
John F. Callahan, as well as an introduction by the author.
Ralph
Ellison's blistering and impassioned first novel tells the
extraordinary story of a man invisible 'simply because people refuse to
see me'. Published in 1952 when American society was in the cusp of
immense change, the powerfully depicted adventures of Ellison's
invisible man - from his expulsion from a Southern college to a
terrifying Harlem race riot - go far beyond the story of one individual.
As John Callahan says, 'In an extraordinary imaginative leap, he hit
upon a single word for the different yet shared condition of African
Americans, Americans, and, for that matter, the human individual in the
twentieth century and beyond.'
This edition includes Ralph Ellison's introduction to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Invisible Man, a fascinating account of the novel's seven-year gestation.
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