Invisible Man
A great book. First published AD 1952, written in English
Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, and the only one published during his lifetime. It was first published by the British magazine Horizon in 1947, and addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans in the early 20th century, including Black nationalism, the relationship between Black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.
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What it draws on
Moby-DickGreat book
Herman Melville, AD 1851
Melville shaped Ellison's way of writing about race. His biographer Arnold Rampersad says the narrator resembles no one in earlier fiction so much as Ishmael, the outsider who survives to tell the story.
Source: Wikipedia, Invisible Man
“Arnold Rampersad, Ellison's biographer, says that Herman Melville had a profound influence on Ellison's way of writing about race: the narrator "resembles no one else in previous fiction so much as he resembles Ishmael of Moby-Dick".” Read it there
Notes from UndergroundGreat book
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1864
Ellison's narrator opens with 'I am an invisible man', a deliberate echo of 'I am a sick man', and like the Underground Man speaks to us from a hole: a cellar in Harlem lit by 1,369 stolen light bulbs.
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