Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man is the story of a young, college-educated black man struggling to survive and succeed in a racially divided society that refuses to see him as a human being. Told in the form of a first-person narrative, Invisible Man traces the nameless narrator’s physical and psychological journey from blind ignorance to enlightened awareness—or, according to the author, “from Purpose to Passion to Perception”—through a series of flashbacks in the forms of dreams and memories.... More