Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 17.
Ralph Waldo Ellison è stato uno scrittore, saggista e critico musicale statunitense, chiamato in questo modo dal padre in onore di Ralph Waldo Emerson.
La fama di Ellison si deve al suo romanzo intitolato "Invisible Man" che nel 1953 vinse il National Book Award. Nel 1964 scrisse "Shadow and Act", una raccolta di saggi politici, sociali e critici e nel 1986 "Going to the Territory".
Ricerche fatte da Lawrence Jackson, uno dei biografi di Ellison, hanno permesso di stabilire che era nato un anno prima di quanto si pensasse. Wikipedia

Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 17.
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 9
Ralph Ellison libro Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.
“And yet I am what they think I am.”
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 17.
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 14.
“The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.”
"The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1978), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 503.
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 3.
“…to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 13.
"The Essential Ellison", interview by Ishmael Reed in Y'Bird 1, no. 1 (1978): 130-59.
"Brave Words for a Startling Occasion" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 154.
"Address to the Harvard College Alumni, Class of 1949" (1974), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 429.
"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 212.
“…there's always an element of crime in freedom.”
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 7.
“The truth is the light and light is the truth.”
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
"The Golden Age, Time Past" (1959), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 239.
Ralph Ellison libro Three Days Before the Shooting...
Origine: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), pp. 680-1.
"What These Children Are Like" (1963), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 555.
Ralph Ellison libro Three Days Before the Shooting...
Origine: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 418.
"Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 81.
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 133.
"Some Questions and Some Answers" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 298.
"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 218.
“Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.”
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 217.
"Brave Words for a Startling Occasion" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 153.
“Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.”
Ralph Ellison libro Three Days Before the Shooting...
Origine: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 251.
Ralph Ellison libro Invisible Man
Origine: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 12.