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Invisible Man (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)

by Ralph Ellison (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (31 Aug 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140180532
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140180534
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 243,149 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars surprising, 30 Jul 2000
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I was bought this book as a present and reading the cover did not really inspire me to read it. But 6 months later I eventually got round to it and I have to say I was impressed.

It is a powerful novel - one man's oddessy through an America that is both in the past and frighteningly current. The nameless protaganist goes through various trials and nightmares trying to make his mark in a racist society, but again and again he suffers setbacks - he is a powerless 'invisible man' - neither education or politics are effective in changing how he (and millions like him) are seen in society.

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4.0 out of 5 stars When I discover who I am, I'll be free., 26 Dec 2008
By Francesconi Alessandra (Italy) - See all my reviews
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"Invisible man" can be described as a "layer book", that is, a book with many layers of meaning. At a first and simpler level, it's the story of an unnamed 20 year-old black boy expelled from his college in the South and forced to find his way in the North, in a period when the difference between these two areas of the States was extremely tangible (and sometimes shocking) for coloured people. At a deeper and metaphorical level, it's a journey from illusion to disillusion, from boyhood to adulthood, from innocence to consciousness. It's not a simple book at all, almost hallucinative in some part, and I suppose that, according to your culture and previuos readings, you can be able to find out many more levels of interpretations than the ones I found. But it's definetely an intriguing reading, never predictable, and with a few ideas which are universally shareable.
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