Invisible Man

这不是一本可以躺着读的通俗小说，而是一部让人读得喘不过气的精神重压之作。它讲述一个无名黑人在南方长大、进大学、南下纽约、卷入政治斗争，最终躲进地下室把自己'藏'起来的故事。但真正击中读者的，是那句反复回响的诘问：当一个人拼命挥舞拳头、诅咒发誓，只为让别人承认'我存在'，而对方偏偏视而不见时，人还剩什么？它写种族，却远超种族——有人把它当作冷战背景下的政治寓言，有人当作社会学教材，也有人只记得那份压抑到极点的窒息。它不适合寻求爽感的读者，却适合那些愿意追问'被看不见'究竟意味着什么的读者：当历史变成一个赌徒，你我是否也只是他手中一张得了负点的牌？

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.