A review by michaelclorah
The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

4.0

THE MAN WHO LIVED UNDERGROUND is vivid and dark and break-you-down human. For such a short book (just over 150 pages), it had a few passages that bogged down for me (and admittedly, the very real claustrophobia I felt while imagining being in those small, dark tunnels probably didn't help me LOL), but it's a moving portrait of struggling to fit into an unfair society and also failing to exist outside it. The essay about Wright's grandmother adds some interesting illumination to the intent of the novella.