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literarycolin 's review for:
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Readers who go in blind will likely not be prepared for Invisible Man.
Heck, even those acquainted with novels in the same vein may not be ready for Ellison's strain of experimental literary jazz.
Invisible Man’s stream of consciousness is a powerful wave that crashes over the reader—an opportunity to bask in the rawness of Ellison’s message and the feeling it creates.
The unique and passionate voices of Ellison’s characters are always front and center. They magnify—and are magnified by—his masterful command of prose, imagery, and characterization.
Like a niche subgenre of jazz, Invisible Man’s quirks, dissonances, and surrealism may put off some readers—but those who make it to the last page will likely return to it again, noticing a bassline here, a new harmony there, that they didn’t hear before.
Heck, even those acquainted with novels in the same vein may not be ready for Ellison's strain of experimental literary jazz.
Invisible Man’s stream of consciousness is a powerful wave that crashes over the reader—an opportunity to bask in the rawness of Ellison’s message and the feeling it creates.
The unique and passionate voices of Ellison’s characters are always front and center. They magnify—and are magnified by—his masterful command of prose, imagery, and characterization.
Like a niche subgenre of jazz, Invisible Man’s quirks, dissonances, and surrealism may put off some readers—but those who make it to the last page will likely return to it again, noticing a bassline here, a new harmony there, that they didn’t hear before.