Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison

английский

Penguin Books

Роман обращается ко многим проблемам, стоящим перед афроамериканцем в начале XX века.

Повествование идет от первого лица неназванного афроамериканца, считающего себя социально невидимым из-за расовых и социальных проблем своего времени.

Это интересно: Журнал Time включал этот роман в 100 Лучших англоязычных романов в 1953-2005 годах.

The hero of this blistering, mightily successful first novel, like its author, is an American negro. From the bizarre events leading up to his expulsion from a Southern college to the climax when pent-up tensions erupt in a terrifying Harlem race riot, he describes his Candide-like adventures with a white-hot-passion and intensity.

It is a story told with enormous power and invention - the nightmare job in a paint factory, his disillusionment with the 'Brotherhood' and its policy of betrayal, the eviction of an old negro couple which starts his political career. This surely is among the few great American novels of post-war years.