看不见的人

从第二次世界大战结束到今天的当代美国文学中，有两部小说经过三十多年时间的考验，已被认为是“现代经典”：一部是黑人作家拉尔夫 艾里森（ＲａｌｐｈＥｌｌｉｓｏｎ， １９１４— ）的《看不见的人》（Ｔｈｅ Ｉｎｖｉｓｉｂｌｅ Ｍａｎ， １９５２），一部就是《麦田里的守望者》。——施咸荣

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.