《看不见的人》的主人公是一个出身贫寒的美国南方黑人青年。他发愤读书,刻意上进。中学毕业时由于出色的演讲被推荐到一所黑人大学读书,没想到他在接待白人校董时触怒了校董与校长,被逐出校门,来到纽约,四处碰壁。他深深地体会到作为黑人的自己在白人眼中是“无形无体”的。书中真实地再现了美国社会上世纪60年代黑人的生存状况和黑人民权运动。
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Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1914[a] – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). For The New York Times, the best of these essays in addition to the novel put him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus." A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes he left upon his death.
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因为他们置身于历史领域之外,既没有人赞赏他们的价值,而他们自己也看不到那价值,如果杰克兄弟错了怎么办?如果历史不是实验室实验中的一种力量,而是一个赌徒,那些青年只是他得了负点的一张爱司牌,那又怎么办?如果历史不是以为通情达理的公民,而是一个满脑子狂妄诡计的疯子,而这些青年是他的下手,是他的法宝,是他用来为自己报仇的工具,那又怎么办?
因为他们是超于历史时间之外的人,他们没跟外界接触,他们不信仰兄弟会
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