Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison • 1952
Devastation Rating
injustice literary fiction political philosophical
Our Take
A Black man invisible to the world around him, and Ellison makes that invisibility structural, systemic, and finally chosen. The novel moves from the South to Harlem with gathering fury. The underground prologue and epilogue form one of the great framing devices in American fiction.
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