The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood, " and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for 16 weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. "Invisible Man" is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. "A book of the very first order, a superb book."-Saul Bellow Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.Ī Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S.
The nameless narrator of the novel describes growing up in a black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. An African-American man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
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