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INVISIBLE MAN (439 pp.)-Ralph Ellison-Random House...
Invisible Man is a remarkable first novel that gives 38-year-old Ralph Ellison a claim to being the best of U.S. Negro writers.*It makes him, for that matter, an unusual writer by any standard. His story of one Negro's effort to find his place in the world becomes at times a picaresque nightmare, full of bravura scenes in the South and in Harlem that are as original as they are imaginative. Not even patches of overwriting and murky thinking can dull the final powerful effect. For Invisible Man is no simple catalogue of hard-luck adventures...
These misadventures, handled with fine flair and gusto by Author Ellison, end the boy's college career. Kicking him out for irresponsible conduct, the president admits that, to get where he is, he himself had "to act the nigger." He hands out some advice for the road: "You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity -you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence...
...Digging Me, Daddy?" Author Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book...
...first projects to be handled by Mark IV will be to "read" copies of the Bible under the direction of the Reverend John W. Ellison of Tucson, Arizona. Ellison will spend two weeks supervising the "reading" of 100 ancient manuscripts of the Bible, two at a time. The machine will indicate where words have been added or deleted, as well as differences in spelling and word order...