Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City, on March 1, 1913 and died in New York, on April 16, 1994. He was a well known writer and teacher. Also a very well recognize as one of the best American novelists of the post-war period. He lived in Oklahoma in his youth, studying at public schools and suffering from the environment as many African-Americans. After receiving a scholarship, Ellison could focus on the music, his early passion and love; between 1933 and 1936 he was pursuing this at the Tuskegee Institute, specializing in trumpet. However a nice meeting with Richard Wright in New York, made a big change in his life. Richard Wright who asked him a literary criticism which it seems that he excel in his work, because Wright convinced him …show more content…
The novel’s main character is a black man without a name who shows and expresses the harsh social reality of the United States at that time (and always). Also this character realize how society separate him for his roots and treat him as nobody. The invisible man, published in 1952 by Ralph Ellison, received instant recognition. The novel tells the story of a man from the city of New York, after grow and live his life as a citizen black model, now lives in a basement and believes that it is invisible to American society. The invisible man is important not only for the world literature by his improvised style which resembles to the jazz, but also for the big symbolism that it si s in the novel some of these are represented by the paintings, the different visual disabilities of some of the characters and the sambo doll. The first use of the Narrator is in a patriotic paintings company renowned for its "optical white" paint color, this is a Symbolism alert. When a novel that is explicitly about the ills that are carried out in the name of racism mentioned white paint, as well, already you know that the thing will be quite