- Editorial:
- VINTAGE USA
- Año de edición:
- 1995
- Materia:
- Literatura contemporánea en español
- ISBN:
- 978-0-679-73276-1
- Páginas:
- 581
- Encuadernación:
- Tapa blanda
INVISIBLE MAN
RALPH ELLISON
u003cbu003eBoth a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003e u003cbru003e The book's nameless narrator 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", before retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. u003cbru003e u003cbru003e Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, 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 book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's u003ciu003eThe Waste Landu003c/iu003e, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
