Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century, and his essays and other fictional work have also been highly influential. This invaluable new edition of the study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism on this great American author. The Bloom's Modern Critical Views series presents critical portraits of the writers that are most widely read and studied in high schools and colleges. Each volume opens with an introductory essay by Harold Bloom in which he offers his insights into the author's work and an editor's note that comments on the individual analyses that follow. Also included are bibliographic references, notes on the various contributors, and a useful chronology of the writer's life. Bloom's Modern Critical Views is a critical presentation of those men and women who, from ancient times to the present, have shaped the Western literary tradition. Book jacket.