Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914[a] – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). For The New York Times, the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death.
Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.
After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero's high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New York's Harlem, where most of the action takes place. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures, in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed--as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity of the blindness of others.
Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro's anomalous position in American society.
From the Hardcover edition.
看到这样的小说,但想到现在报导的新闻,觉得真是个很奇怪的事,对于美国黑人地位的评价,甚至有许多人说出了“黑命贵”的话语。当然我内心是明白的,这所谓的“黑命贵”只是统治阶级有意造成的。毕竟对于剥削阶级来说,肤色、种族、性别、年龄都是无所谓的,都是为其创造剩余...
評分【作品鉴赏】 本书是当代美国黑人文学中的经典之作,具有西方当代小说的许多特点:思想内容上提出了个人在荒谬的宇宙里的处境问题并探索自我本质;艺术上大胆创新,现实主义与超现实主义相结合,在运用黑色幽默手法上开美国后现代派文学的先河。因此这部小说在1932年刚一出...
評分I read it when I was a graduate student. The experience of the protagonist seems to belong to a lot modern people. When you are invisible, what will you do?
評分黑人种族问题是美国的“顽症”。为此不仅仅爆发了南北战争和许多次种族暴乱,而且对艺术、思想产生了深远的影响。此书显然其中较为出色的一部。 黑人对待种族问题的态度大致分两种,一种是暴力反抗;另一种则是布克尔·华盛顿(自传《力争上游》)提出的通过受教育努力...
評分【作品鉴赏】 本书是当代美国黑人文学中的经典之作,具有西方当代小说的许多特点:思想内容上提出了个人在荒谬的宇宙里的处境问题并探索自我本质;艺术上大胆创新,现实主义与超现实主义相结合,在运用黑色幽默手法上开美国后现代派文学的先河。因此这部小说在1932年刚一出...
good book, cheap symbolism
评分Ellison's Invisible Man forms an interesting comparative reading with Wright's Native Son, though I prefer the former one. The language runs so smoothly like an exquisite music. Why am I so blue?!
评分三天半看完,有些倉促。又是一名憑藉一本長篇名垂青史的作傢。一個被思想奴化的南方大學生被迫北上闖蕩Harlem,最終對一切都幻滅,選擇鼕眠1.自白式敘事手法,癲狂真摯吸引人 2.關於非裔的生存睏境和選擇 3.brotherhood的政治現實意義和ellison對左翼的態度轉變 (這一點導寫瞭篇非常有考據意義的文章)4.超越瞭非裔作傢為社會政治抗議而書寫的非裔文學傳統,寫瞭一個美國身份的人經曆瞭美國夢的隕落,以及黑人群體內部的分裂和問題5. the king of bingo game是它的rehearsal 6.特彆喜歡這本書的書麵,兩個i消失瞭,點名瞭非裔身份的危機
评分Ellison's Invisible Man forms an interesting comparative reading with Wright's Native Son, though I prefer the former one. The language runs so smoothly like an exquisite music. Why am I so blue?!
评分三天半看完,有些倉促。又是一名憑藉一本長篇名垂青史的作傢。一個被思想奴化的南方大學生被迫北上闖蕩Harlem,最終對一切都幻滅,選擇鼕眠1.自白式敘事手法,癲狂真摯吸引人 2.關於非裔的生存睏境和選擇 3.brotherhood的政治現實意義和ellison對左翼的態度轉變 (這一點導寫瞭篇非常有考據意義的文章)4.超越瞭非裔作傢為社會政治抗議而書寫的非裔文學傳統,寫瞭一個美國身份的人經曆瞭美國夢的隕落,以及黑人群體內部的分裂和問題5. the king of bingo game是它的rehearsal 6.特彆喜歡這本書的書麵,兩個i消失瞭,點名瞭非裔身份的危機
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