看不見的人

《看不見的人》的主人公是一個出身貧寒的美國南方黑人青年。他發(fā)憤讀書，刻意上進。中學(xué)畢業(yè)時由于出色的演講被推薦到一所黑人大學(xué)讀書，沒想到他在接待白人校董時觸怒了校董與校長，被逐出校門，來到紐約，四處碰壁。他深深地體會到作為黑人的自己在白人眼中是“無形無體”的。書中真實地再現(xiàn)了美國社會上世紀(jì)60年代黑人的生存狀況和黑人民權(quán)運動。

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 essay...

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.