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Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.

Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953.^[2]In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man 19th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.^[3]Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, calling it 'the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century', rather than a 'race novel, or even a bildungsroman'.^[4]Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland recognize an existential vision with a 'Kafka-like absurdity'.^[5] According to The New York Times, former U.S. president Barack Obama modeled his memoir Dreams from My Father on Ellison's novel.^[6]

Background[edit]

Ellison says in his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition^[7] that he started to write what would eventually become Invisible Man in a barn in Waitsfield, Vermont in the summer of 1945 while on sick leave from the Merchant Marine. The book took five years to complete with one year off for what Ellison termed an 'ill-conceived short novel.'^[8]Invisible Man was published as a whole in 1952. Ellison had published a section of the book in 1947, the famous 'Battle Royal' scene, which had been shown to Cyril Connolly, the editor of Horizon magazine by Frank Taylor, one of Ellison's early supporters.

In his speech accepting the 1953 National Book Award,^[9] Ellison said that he considered the novel's chief significance to be its 'experimental attitude.' Before Invisible Man, many (if not most) novels dealing with African Americans were written solely for social protest, most notably, Native Son and Uncle Tom's Cabin. By contrast, the narrator in Invisible Man says, 'I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either,' signaling the break from the normal protest novel that Ellison held about his work. Likewise, in the essay 'The World in a Jug,' which is a response to Irving Howe's essay 'Black Boys and Native Sons,' which 'pit[s] Ellison and [James] Baldwin against [Richard] Wright and then,' as Ellison would say, 'gives Wright the better argument,' Ellison makes a fuller statement about the position he held about his book in the larger canon of work by an American who happens to be African. In the opening paragraph to that essay Ellison poses three questions: 'Why is it so often true that when critics confront the American as Negro they suddenly drop their advanced critical armament and revert with an air of confident superiority to quite primitive modes of analysis? Why is it that Sociology-oriented critics seem to rate literature so far below politics and ideology that they would rather kill a novel than modify their presumptions concerning a given reality which it seeks in its own terms to project? Finally, why is it that so many of those who would tell us the meaning of Negro life never bother to learn how varied it really is?'

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Ellison's Invisible Man straddles two important literary movements: the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement and you can see odes to both and to neither in it. Indeed, Ellison's resistance to being pigeonholed by his peers is clearly evident in his statement to Irving Howe about what he deemed to be a relative vs. an ancestor. He says, to Howe: '..perhaps you will understand when I say that he [Wright] did not influence me if I point out that while one can do nothing about choosing one's relatives, one can, as an artist, choose one's 'ancestors.' Wright was, in this sense, a 'relative'; Hemingway an 'ancestor.' And it was this idea of 'playing the field,' so to speak, not being 'all-in,' that lead to some of Ellison's more staunch critics. The aforementioned Howe, in 'Black Boys and Native Sons,' but also the likes of other black writers such as John Oliver Killens, who once denounced Invisible Man by saying: “The Negro people need Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man like we need a hole in the head or a stab in the back. .. It is a vicious distortion of Negro life.'

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Ellison's 'ancestors' included, among others, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot^[10]; Ellison spent some time tracking down all of the obscure references in that poem. In an interview with Richard Kostelanetz, Ellison states that what he had learned from the poem was imagery, and also improvisation techniques he had only before seen in jazz.^[11].

Some other influences include William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Ellison once called Faulkner the South's greatest artist. Likewise, in the Spring 1955 Paris Review',' Ellison said of Hemingway: 'At night I practiced writing and studied Joyce, Dostoyevsky, Stein, and Hemingway. Especially Hemingway; I read him to learn his sentence structure and how to organize a story. I guess many young writers were doing this, but I also used his description of hunting when I went into the fields the next day. I had been hunting since I was eleven, but no one had broken down the process of wing-shooting for me, and it was from reading Hemingway that I learned to lead a bird. When he describes something in print, believe him; believe him even when he describes the process of art in terms of baseball or boxing; he’s been there.'^[8]

Some of Ellison's influences had a more direct impact on his novel as when Ellison divulges this, in his introduction to the 30th anniversary of Invisible Man, that the 'character' ('in the dual sense of the word') who had announced himself on his page he 'associated, ever so distantly, with the narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground'. Although, despite the 'distantly' remark, it appears that Ellison used that novella more than just on that occasion. The beginning of Invisible Man, for example, seems to be structured very similar to Notes from Underground: 'I am a sick man' compared to 'I am an invisible man'.

Arnold Rampersad, Ellison's biographer, expounds that Melville had a profound influence on Ellison's freedom to describe race so acutely and generously. [The narrator] 'resembles no one else in previous fiction so much as he resembles Ishmael of Moby-Dick.' Ellison signals his debt in the prologue to the novel, where the narrator remembers a moment of truth under the influence of marijuana and evokes a church service: 'Brothers and sisters, my text this morning is the 'Blackness of Blackness.' And the congregation answers: 'That blackness is most black, brother, most black..' In this scene Ellison 'reprises a moment in the second chapter of Moby-Dick', where Ishmael wanders around New Bedford looking for a place to spend the night and enters a black church: 'It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.' According to Rampersad, it was Melville who 'empowered Ellison to insist on a place in the American literary tradition' by his example of 'representing the complexity of race and racism so acutely and generously' in Moby-Dick.[12]

Other most likely influences to Ellison, by way of how much he speaks about them, are: Kenneth Burke, Andre Malraux, Mark Twain, to name a few.

Political influences and the Communist Party[edit]

The letters he wrote to fellow novelist Richard Wright as he started working on the novel provide evidence for his disillusion with and defection from the Communist Party. In a letter to Wright on August 18, 1945, Ellison poured out his anger toward party leaders for betraying African-American and Marxist class politics during the war years: 'If they want to play ball with the bourgeoisie they needn't think they can get away with it.. Maybe we can't smash the atom, but we can, with a few well-chosen, well-written words, smash all that crummy filth to hell.'^[12]

Plot summary[edit]

The narrator, an unnamed black man, begins by describing his living conditions: an underground room wired with hundreds of electric lights, operated by power stolen from the city's electric grid. He reflects on the various ways in which he has experienced social invisibility during his life and begins to tell his story, returning to his teenage years.

The narrator lives in a small Southern town and, upon graduating from high school, wins a scholarship to an all-black college. However, to receive it, he must first take part in a brutal, humiliating battle royal for the entertainment of the town's rich white dignitaries.

One afternoon during his junior year at the college, the narrator chauffeurs Mr. Norton, a visiting rich white trustee, out among the old slave-quarters beyond the campus. By chance, he stops at the cabin of Jim Trueblood, who has caused a scandal by impregnating both his wife and his daughter in his sleep. Trueblood's account horrifies Mr. Norton so badly that he asks the narrator to find him a drink. The narrator drives him to a bar filled with prostitutes and patients from a nearby mental hospital. The mental patients rail against both of them and eventually overwhelm the orderly assigned to keep the patients under control. The narrator hurries an injured Mr. Norton away from the chaotic scene and back to campus.

Dr. Bledsoe, the college president, excoriates the narrator for showing Mr. Norton the underside of black life beyond the campus and expels him. However, Bledsoe gives several sealed letters of recommendation to the narrator, to be delivered to friends of the college in order to assist him in finding a job so that he may eventually re-enroll. The narrator travels to New York and distributes his letters, with no success; the son of one recipient shows him the letter, which reveals Bledsoe's intent to never admit the narrator as a student again.

Acting on the son's suggestion, the narrator seeks work at the Liberty Paint factory, renowned for its pure white paint. He is assigned first to the shipping department, then to the boiler room, whose chief attendant, Lucius Brockway, is highly paranoid and suspects that the narrator is trying to take his job. This distrust worsens after the narrator stumbles into a union meeting, and Brockway attacks the narrator and tricks him into setting off an explosion in the boiler room. The narrator is hospitalized and subjected to shock treatment, overhearing the doctors' discussion of him as a possible mental patient.

After leaving the hospital, the narrator faints on the streets of Harlem and is taken in by Mary Rambo, a kindly old-fashioned woman who reminds him of his relatives in the South. He later happens across the eviction of an elderly black couple and makes an impassioned speech that incites the crowd to attack the law enforcement officials in charge of the proceedings. The narrator escapes over the rooftops and is confronted by Brother Jack, the leader of a group known as 'the Brotherhood' that professes its commitment to bettering conditions in Harlem and the rest of the world. At Jack's urging, the narrator agrees to join and speak at rallies to spread the word among the black community. Using his new salary, he pays Mary the back rent he owes her and moves into an apartment provided by the Brotherhood.

The rallies go smoothly at first, with the narrator receiving extensive indoctrination on the Brotherhood's ideology and methods. Soon, though, he encounters trouble from Ras the Exhorter, a fanatical black nationalist who believes that the Brotherhood is controlled by whites. Neither the narrator nor Tod Clifton, a youth leader within the Brotherhood, is particularly swayed by his words. The narrator is later called before a meeting of the Brotherhood and accused of putting his own ambitions ahead of the group. He is reassigned to another part of the city to address issues concerning women, seduced by the wife of a Brotherhood member, and eventually called back to Harlem when Clifton is reported missing and the Brotherhood's membership and influence begin to falter.

The narrator can find no trace of Clifton at first, but soon discovers him selling dancing Sambo dolls on the street, having become disillusioned with the Brotherhood. Clifton is shot and killed by a policeman while resisting arrest; at his funeral, the narrator delivers a rousing speech that rallies the crowd to support the Brotherhood again. At an emergency meeting, Jack and the other Brotherhood leaders criticize the narrator for his unscientific arguments and the narrator determines that the group has no real interest in the black community's problems.

The narrator returns to Harlem, trailed by Ras's men, and buys a hat and a pair of sunglasses to elude them. As a result, he is repeatedly mistaken for a man named Rinehart, known as a lover, a hipster, a gambler, a briber, and a spiritual leader. Understanding that Rinehart has adapted to white society at the cost of his own identity, the narrator resolves to undermine the Brotherhood by feeding them dishonest information concerning the Harlem membership and situation. After seducing the wife of one member in a fruitless attempt to learn their new activities, he discovers that riots have broken out in Harlem due to widespread unrest. He realizes that the Brotherhood has been counting on such an event in order to further its own aims. The narrator gets mixed up with a gang of looters, who burn down a tenement building, and wanders away from them to find Ras, now on horseback, armed with a spear and shield, and calling himself 'the Destroyer.' Ras shouts for the crowd to lynch the narrator, but the narrator attacks him with the spear and escapes into an underground coal bin. Two white men seal him in, leaving him alone to ponder the racism he has experienced in his life.

The epilogue returns to the present, with the narrator stating that he is ready to return to the world because he has spent enough time hiding from it. He explains that he has told his story in order to help people see past his own invisibility, and also to provide a voice for people with a similar plight: 'Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?'

Reception[edit]

Critic Orville Prescott of The New York Times called the novel 'the most impressive work of fiction by an American Negro which I have ever read,' and felt it marked 'the appearance of a richly talented writer.' ^[13] Novelist Saul Bellow in his review found it 'a book of the very first order, a superb book..it is tragi-comic, poetic, the tone of the very strongest sort of creative intelligence.'^[14] George Mayberry of The New Republic said Ellison 'is a master at catching the shape, flavor and sound of the common vagaries of human character and experience.'^[15]

In The Paris Review, literary critic Harold Bloom referred to Invisible Man, along with Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, as 'the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all.'^[16]

Anthony Burgess described the novel as 'a masterpiece'.^[17]

Adaptation[edit]

It was reported in October 2017 that streaming service Hulu was developing the novel into a television series.^[18]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Denby, David (April 12, 2012). 'Justice For Ralph Ellison'. The New Yorker. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
2. ^'National Book Awards – 1953'. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
   (With acceptance speech by Ellison, essay by Neil Baldwin from the 50-year publication, and essays by Charles Johnson and others (four) from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
3. ^'100 Best Novels'. Modern Library. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
4. ^Grossman, Lev. 'All-TIME 100 Novels' – via entertainment.time.com.
5. ^Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. Penguin, 380. ISBN0-14-014435-8
6. ^Greg Grandin, 'Obama, Melville, and the Tea Party'.The New York Times, 18 January 2014. Retrieved on 17 March 2016.
7. ^Ellison, Ralph Waldo. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.
8. ^ ^abRalph Ellison (1955). 'The Art of Fiction No. 8'. The Paris Review. p. 113.
9. ^'Ralph Ellison, Winner of the 1953 Fiction Award for Invisible Man'. National Book Awards Acceptance Speeches. NBF. Retrieved 2012-03-31.
10. ^Eliot, T. S. (1963) Collected Poems, 1909–1962
11. ^Ellison, Ralph and Richard Kostelanetz. 'An Interview with Ralph Ellison.' The Iowa Review 19.3 (1989): 1-10.
12. ^Carol Polsgrove, Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement (2001), pp. 66-69.
13. ^Prescott, Orville. 'Books of the Times'. The New York Times. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
14. ^Bellow, Saul. 'Man Underground'. Commentary. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
15. ^Mayberry, George. 'George Mayberry's 1952 Review of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man'. New Republic. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
16. ^Weiss, Antonio. 'Harold Bloom, The Art of Criticism No. 1'. The Paris Review. Retrieved November 6, 2013.
17. ^Anthony Burgess (April 3, 2014). You've Had Your Time. Random House. p. 130. ISBN978-1-4735-1239-9.
18. ^Holloway, Daniel (October 26, 2017). 'Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' Series Adaptation in the Works at Hulu (EXCLUSIVE)'. Variety. Retrieved October 26, 2017.

External links[edit]

• Ralph Ellison, 1914–1994: His Book 'Invisible Man' Won Awards and Is Still Discussed Today (VOA Special English)
• Teacher's Guide at Random House
• Invisible Man study guide, themes, quotes, character analyses, teaching resources

The Invisible Man is a science fictionnovel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.^[1]

While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man.

Plot summary[edit]

A mysterious man, Griffin, arrives at the local inn owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hall of the English village of Iping, West Sussex, during a snowstorm. The stranger wears a long-sleeved, thick coat and gloves; his face is hidden entirely by bandages except for a fake pink nose; and he wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is excessively reclusive, irascible, unfriendly, and an introvert. He demands to be left alone and spends most of his time in his rooms working with a set of chemicals and laboratory apparatus, only venturing out at night. While Griffin is staying at the inn, hundreds of strange glass bottles (that he calls his luggage) arrive. Many local townspeople believe this to be very odd. He becomes the talk of the village with many theorizing as to his origins.

Meanwhile, a mysterious burglary occurs in the village. Griffin is running out of money and is trying to find a way to pay for his board and lodging. When his landlady demands that he pay his bill and quit the premises, he reveals part of his invisibility to her in a fit of pique. An attempt to apprehend the stranger is frustrated when he undresses to take advantage of his invisibility, fights off his would-be captors, and flees to the downs. In the process, he arms himself with an iron pipe; when a man follows the 'floating pipe' and accidentally forces the Invisible man into thorn bushes, the invisible man commits his first murder.

There Griffin coerces a tramp, Thomas Marvel, into becoming his assistant. With Marvel, he returns to the village to recover three notebooks that contain records of his experiments. When Marvel attempts to betray the Invisible Man to the police, Griffin chases him to the seaside town of Port Burdock, threatening to kill him. Marvel escapes to a local inn and is saved by the people at the inn, but Griffin escapes. Marvel later goes to the police and tells them of this 'invisible man,' then requests to be locked up in a high-security jail.

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Griffin's furious attempt to avenge his betrayal leads to his being shot. He takes shelter in a nearby house that turns out to belong to Dr. Kemp, a former acquaintance from medical school. To Kemp, he reveals his true identity. Griffin is a former medical student who left medicine to devote himself to optics. He recounts how he invented chemicals capable of rendering bodies invisible, and, on impulse, performed the procedure on himself.

Griffin tells Kemp the story of how he became invisible. He explains how he tried the invisibility on a cat, then himself. Griffin burned down the boarding house he was staying in, along with all the equipment he had used to turn invisible, to cover his tracks, but he soon realised that he was ill-equipped to survive in the open. He attempted to steal food and clothes from a large department store, and eventually stole some clothing from a theatrical supply shop and headed to Iping to attempt to reverse the invisibility. Having been driven somewhat unhinged by the procedure and his experiences, he now imagines that he can make Kemp his secret confederate, describing a plan to begin a 'Reign of Terror' by using his invisibility to terrorise the nation.

Kemp has already denounced Griffin to the local authorities and is waiting for help to arrive as he listens to this wild proposal. When the authorities arrive at Kemp's house, Griffin fights his way out and the next day leaves a note announcing that Kemp himself will be the first man to be killed in the 'Reign of Terror'. Kemp, a cool-headed character, tries to organise a plan to use himself as bait to trap the Invisible Man, but a note that he sends is stolen from his servant by Griffin.

Griffin shoots and wounds a Scotland Yard Inspector who comes to Kemp's aid, then breaks into Kemp's house. Kemp bolts for the town, where the local citizenry come to his aid. Griffin is cornered, seized, and savagely beaten by the enraged mob, with his last words being a desperate cry for mercy. Despite Griffin's murderous actions, Kemp urges the mob to stand away and tries to save the life of his assailant, though it is not to be. The Invisible Man's naked, battered body gradually becomes visible as he dies, pitiable in the stillness of death. A local policeman shouts to have someone cover Griffin's face with a sheet.

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In the epilogue, it is revealed that Marvel has secretly kept Griffin's notes and—with the help of the stolen money—has now become a successful business owner, running the 'Invisible Man Inn'. However, when not at work running his inn, Marvel sits in his office trying to decipher the notes in the hopes of one day recreating Griffin's work. Because several pages were accidentally washed clean during the chase of Griffin by Marvel and since the remaining Griffin's notes are coded in Greek and Latin, Marvel is completely incapable of understanding them.

Background[edit]

Children's literature was a prominent genre in the 1890s. According to John Sutherland, Wells and his contemporaries such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling 'essentially wrote boy's books for grown-ups.' Sutherland identifies The Invisible Man as one such book.^[2] Wells said that his inspiration for the novella was 'The Perils of Invisibility,' one of the Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert, which includes the couplet 'Old Peter vanished like a shot/but then - his suit of clothes did not.'^[3] Another influence on The Invisible Man was Plato's Republic, a book which had a significant effect on Wells when he read it as an adolescent. In the second book of the Republic, Glaucon recounts the legend of the Ring of Gyges, which posits that, if a man were made invisible and could act with impunity, he would 'go about among men with the powers of a god.'^[4] Wells wrote the original version of the tale between March and June 1896. This version was a 25,000 word short story titled 'The Man at the Coach and Horses' which Wells was dissatisfied with, so he extended it.^[5]

Scientific accuracy[edit]

Russian writer Yakov I. Perelman pointed out in Physics Can Be Fun (1913) that from a scientific point of view, a man made invisible by Griffin's method should have been blind, since a human eye works by absorbing incoming light, not letting it through completely. Wells seems to show some awareness of this problem in Chapter 20, where the eyes of an otherwise invisible cat retain visible retinas. Nonetheless, this would be insufficient, since the retina would be flooded with light (from all directions) that ordinarily is blocked by the opaque sclera of the eyeball. Also, any image would be badly blurred if the eye had an invisible cornea and lens.

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Legacy[edit]

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The Invisible Man has been adapted to, and referred to in, film, television, and comics.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination. McFarland. 2009. pp. 41, 42.
2. ^Wells 1996, p. xv.
3. ^Wells 1996, p. xviii.
4. ^Wells 2017, p. xvii.
5. ^Wells 1996, p. xxix.

Bibliography[edit]

• Wells, H. G. (1996), The Invisible Man, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN0-19-283195-X
• Wells, H. G. (2017), The Invisible Man, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, ISBN978-0-19-870267-2

External links[edit]

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• The Invisible Man at Project Gutenberg
• The Invisible Man public domain audiobook at LibriVox