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Ellison, Ralph

 
9780394525495: Invisible Man
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ISBN 10: 0394525493 ISBN 13: 9780394525495
Editorial: Random House Inc, 1982

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A sensitive man suffers from society's reluctance to accept the total humanity of the Black man

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Ralph Ellison was born in Okalahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible Man won the National Book Award  and the Russwurm Award. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at many colleges including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities from 1970 through 1980. Ralph Ellison died in 1994.

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on'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 t

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Random House Inc
Año de publicación
1982
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0394525493
ISBN 13 
9780394525495
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9780679732761: Invisible Man (Vintage International)

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ISBN 10:  0679732764 ISBN 13:  9780679732761
Editorial: Vintage, 1995
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