I came away from this book feeling rejuvenated, stunned, inspired, engaged, taught, challenged, exhilarated, simultaneously filled with both hope and despair- and never at any time did I stop feeling entertained.
#Invisible man book plus
This one book does for the human soul what the authors of most of the last ten plus years of self-help books, sociological tomes, racial dialogues and popular novels COMBINED have both endeavored to do and practically proclaim could not actually be done in print. Thank God the spirit of excellence and truth kept calling me to this book. I somehow found a way to avoid this book in high school and college- partly, I'm sure, because it became so fashionable to have a timely opinion on its social relevance that it made not having read it seem subhuman, while simultaneously making the act of reading it seem like an inhumanly boring chore.
it will be patently impossible for you to put it down once you have picked it up. This book is filled with all the elements of masterful storytelling, mythic-level subtext and spellbinding events, psychological depth, multi-dimensional characters and characterizations.
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Why waste time creating a conscience for something that does not exist? For you see, blood and skin do not think!" Ralph Ellison, INVISIBLE MANThis book is a treasure. we create the race by creating ourselves, and to our astonishment we would have created something far more important: we would have created a culture. The conscience of a race is the conscience of its individuals who see, evaluate, record. Our task is in making ourselves individuals. "Stephen's task, like ours, was not in creating the uncreated aspects of his race, but of discovering the undiscovered features of his face. This book has helped me to see those who had often in the past been invisible to me and I thank Ralph Ellison for making it possible. Please read this book if you have the courage and honesty to see the world through the eyes of the victim. It is so relentless in plunging from one nightmarish episode to the next that one can reasonably say that it is often over the top, and yet any fair-minded reader can easily forgive the excesses of Ellison's vision for the importance of the message that it brings home.Any reader, be he or she black, white, yellow or brown, who must make a way in this world-any reader who attempts to rise from the consciousness of the unprivelidged child or who is a seeker in life, should read Invisible Man as a cautionary tale as well as a great work of art. It is at times so dark and overbearingly heavy that a sensitive or less serious reader might cry out for relief. Ellison displays verbal virtuosity of great breadth with beautiful and lyric eloquence. It is about exploitation, manipulation, and the gross hypocrisy that exists in our society.It is a work of great literary merit. This book is about far more than racism, it is about loss of innocence and rape of the soul. A number of things struck me on this reading that never occurred to me from my earlier limited youthful perspective.First of all, Invisible Man is timeless and I find it hard to believe that it was written nearly fifty years ago. It opened my eyes to racism in a way that I could never have possibly percieved from the perspective of my own limited experience.Thirty years later I pulled this book from the shelf and reread it on a whim. Having grown up middle class midwestern white, it seemed at the time to be a marvelous piece of work that plunged me into the nightmarishly crushing world of racism from the black perspective. When I first read Ralph Ellison's remarkable Invisible Man I was in college.
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