看不见的人 Invisible Man

基本信息

Series:Penguin Essentials

Format:Paperback / softback 608 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd

ISBN:9780241970560

Published:14 Aug 2014

Weight:338g

Dimensions:113 x 181 x 38 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《看不见的人》主要内容：一个年轻的黑人，竭尽全力想得到别人的承认，想“使人看见他”。他做过“老实的黑人”，试图在美国工业里为自己寻找一席之地，使自己成为那种机器上一个合用的齿轮；他曾经加入“兄弟会”，使自己依附于左派政治——他尝试过的每一件事情，似乎都能使一个黑人在美国生活里处于被人看见的地位。但是，这些事情没有一件能使他进入理想的精神文明，所以他现在宁愿做个地下人……

The Invisible Man of the title is ''Griffin'', a scientist who theorizes that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will not be visible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally unstable as a result...

作者简介

拉尔夫•艾里森（Ralph Ellison），美国黑人小说家，1914年3月1日生于美国中南部俄克拉何马市。1933年，他获得州奖学金而进入阿拉巴阿州塔斯克基学院学习音乐。 1937年至1952年间，埃里森发表了9篇短篇小说和10多篇评论文章。本书是埃里森的长篇小说，出版于1952年，被称为"划时代的小说"，可以说是现代美国黑人生活的史诗，1953年获得美国全国图书奖。

Ralph Ellison (1914-94) was born in Oklahoma and trained as a musician at Tuskegee Institute from 1933 to 1936, at which time a visit to New York and a meeting with Richard Wright led to his first attempts at fiction. Invisible Man won the National Book Award. Appointed to the Academy of American Arts and Letters in 1964, Ellison taught at several institutions, including Bard College, the University of Chicago, and New York University, where he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of Humanities.