About this work of fiction
Invisible man by Ralph Ellison is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
SUMMARY: Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. 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. 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. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ralph Ellison
- Publisher
- Vintage international, Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
- Published
- 1952
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679723134
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Science