Invisible Man
(Ralph Ellison)
<b>RalphEllison: Invisible Man</b> <br><br>Thenovel ?Invisible Man?, published in 1952, deals with the subject of racerelations in the U.S. and follows the protagonist to places one never wouldhave imagined possible. <br><br>Inthe beginning, an underground apartment, lit with hundreds of lightbulbs, ispresented. The curiosity of the reader has been aroused and one duly followsthe somewhat heavy and tedious narrative all the way to the end. The otherlocations of this book include a university and the former slave quartersnearby, a nightmarish neuropathic hospital, a rather unsafe paint factory andfinally, Manhattan. <br><br>Thefirst-person narrator seems to walk through life without forming any lastingrelationships with anyone, including his family. He does not show an attachmentto any of the places mentioned in the book, either, but shifts from one placeto another without giving it a second thought. <br><br>Thereare many opportunities in the protagonist?s life to better his situation ?which is admittedly difficult for a black Man in the Southern States of theU.S. at that time. Beginning with the unfair and barbarous fight which wins hima university scholarship, the narrator does use these rare opportunities, onlyto see everything he has achieved slip through his fingers again, usuallythrough some fault of his own. The author does not allow hope to step in andguide the narrator towards a happier future. <br><br>?InvisibleMan? is a rather gloomy book which takes the reader on an aimless journey ofmore than 500 pages. It is too fictional to be a good background study of the1950s, and too real to be merely an exciting novel. <br><br>
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