看不见的人

《看不见的人》的主人公是一个出身贫寒的美国南方黑人青年。他发愤读书，刻意上进。中学毕业时由于出色的演讲被推荐到一所黑人大学读书，没想到他在接待白人校董时触怒了校董与校长，被逐出校门，来到纽约，四处碰壁。他深深地体会到作为黑人的自己在白人眼中是“无形无体”的。书中真实地再现了美国社会上世纪60年代黑人的生存状况和黑人民权运动。

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.