Fülszöveg
Literature y
When this novel was first
published in 1952, it
wrenched thousands of
readers into a sudden
recognition of what it was
like to be black in a coun-
try where black people
were invisible.Today
Invisible Man remains just
as powerful—not because
its truths are wholly new,
but because it delivers
them with a visceral
immediacy that is at once
painful, frightening and
exhilarating.
i
Invisible Man is the story
of several passages in a
young man's life—from the
deep South to the streets
of Harlem, from living on
his knees to standing
defiantly on his feet, from
a fearful denial to a pas-
sionate embrace of his
own Americanness. It is
a Dantesque journey
through the subterranean
strata of black society in
the era between the wars,
related in a voice that
prays and incites, sings
the blues and plays the
dozens.
"The greatest American
novel in the second half of
the twentieth century.
It is savagely funny, end-
of-the-worldy, and exuber-...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
Literature y
When this novel was first
published in 1952, it
wrenched thousands of
readers into a sudden
recognition of what it was
like to be black in a coun-
try where black people
were invisible.Today
Invisible Man remains just
as powerful—not because
its truths are wholly new,
but because it delivers
them with a visceral
immediacy that is at once
painful, frightening and
exhilarating.
i
Invisible Man is the story
of several passages in a
young man's life—from the
deep South to the streets
of Harlem, from living on
his knees to standing
defiantly on his feet, from
a fearful denial to a pas-
sionate embrace of his
own Americanness. It is
a Dantesque journey
through the subterranean
strata of black society in
the era between the wars,
related in a voice that
prays and incites, sings
the blues and plays the
dozens.
"The greatest American
novel in the second half of
the twentieth century.
It is savagely funny, end-
of-the-worldy, and exuber-
antly celebrational.
Invisible Man is the classic
representation of Ameri-
can black experience; it is
also an archetypal journey
through a national inferno
towards purgatory."
—R.W.B. Lewis
Vissza