Analysis of the novel "Invisible Man" Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

After his appearance in 1952 and unanimously regarded by critics as the best American novel published since the end of World War II, "The Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) has been described as one of those works that stay in the memory forever. many who knew him closely, consider this literary work was a modest expression of the reach of thought of this outstanding author, thinker and philosopher.

Today there is a resurgence of the life and work of this distinguished author, perhaps because of the social and political influence exerted by the presence of Barack Obama in the White House.

The Invisible Man is unlike racial relations in America in the twentieth century, this exposes the obstinacy of American white society in ignoring black citizens. The novel, one of the first works to address racial issues from the point of view of the black, received the National Book Award (National Book Award) in 1953. Here the journey of a young southern black narrated in your search a place in the world, first south and then north. Ellison uses a rich and strong language to describe the experience in all its vitality and complexity.

The Invisible Man This great black writer Ralph Ellison as it is, it's a great allegory, picaresque and symbolic, in which the tragic condition of men described their race. Written with the express purpose of denouncing the plight of black conscious and evolved into a world of white men, this work symbolizes the problem of racial discrimination through the myth of invisibility.

Since relegated to the status of second class citizen by the insurmountable barrier of color, black suffering, not so much contempt they suffer, but that is socially ignored, as if the eyes were invisible others. This feeling of exclusion, this humiliating situation of being, not separate and apart, but ignored and non-existent within the society in which he lives, is that Ellison has masterfully described around the central protagonist of this novel.

Through his travels and adventures, the author has raised a poignant drama the tragic and paradoxical condition of black and invisible man, as an individual whose existence does not want to admit. And at the same time, it has within the typical structure of a picaresque novel, which comes at times true epic proportions, drawn a sharp and ironic, harsh and hurtful painting, human and social situation in the United States in the first postwar years.

This is a black boy, who tells in first person the story of his own life, and as a man whose name makes him anonymously without personification of all the people of his race and even a symbol of humanity.

The story reveals a young black South America and desperate to be visible in a world that refuses to see it, you only want to see, either with hatred or with patronizing

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