![]() "Another says that Ellison worries about it being dated, a third man says he has heard that Ellison cannot finish it." "One man has heard that he has pulled it back from his publisher again for more revisions," wrote James McPherson in a profile of Ellison in 1969. Four years later, he said a fire at his summer home in Plainfield, Massachusetts, had destroyed most of it and that he did not have copies. In 1963, he told the Guardian that he would probably publish it the following year. ![]() But an oeuvre of the scope and stature of his first work eluded him.Īnd so for 40 years he laboured, teasing critics with sample chapters in literary reviews, referring to a major work occasionally in essays and generally fuelling rumours that its appearance was imminent. ![]() He produced several essays and a few short stories which established him as a powerful intellectual force. The literary world waited impatiently for a second novel Ellison was desperate to oblige. ![]() Invisible Man, an allegory about the black condition in America, illustrated how American "Negroes" - as Ellison always referred to African-Americans - remained not only unseen, but "invisible" to most white Americans. ![]()
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