Ralph Ellison Invisible Man recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de roman uit 1952 van de Afro-Amerikaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Invisible Man van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Ralph Ellison. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Onzichtbare man.
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man recensie, review en informatie
- “Breaking with the dominant literary styles among Black writers at the time, the author expanded the limits of realism to create a world that was, and remains, all too familiar.” (New York TImes)
Invisible Man
- Autueu: Ralph Ellison (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Afro-Amerikaanse roman
- Verschenen: 14 april 1952
- Taal: Engels
- Omvang: 581 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: Onzichtbare man
- Winnaar National Book Award for Fiction 1953
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1952 van Ralph Ellison
Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the ‘invisible man’ retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground.
Ralph Waldo Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on 1 March 1914. He studied music and in 1936 went to live in New York. He started contributing to the Federal Writers’ Project (part of Roosevelt’s New Deal) and soon his short stories and articles were published. After returning from war service in the Merchant Marines, he concentrated on his writing and, in 1952, his masterpiece Invisible Man was published, seven years after he started it. This established Ellison as a major literary figure. He died in New Work City on 16 April 1994.