New Releases by Ralph Ellison

La obra cumbre de Ralph Ellison es una feroz visión de la sociedad estadounidense durante los primeros años del siglo XX. Considerada la obra cumbre de Ralph Ellison y una de las cien mejores novelas de lengua inglesa del siglo XX, esta novela es el relato en primera persona de quien se describe a sí mismo como un «hombre invisible», no por una anormal condición fisiológica, sino porque la sociedad permanece ciega ante él; se niega a verlo. Ellison desgrana así, desde el presente oscuro, «bajo tierra», del protagonista, las preocupaciones sociales e intelectuales de su tiempo con crudeza y sensibilidad. De ello resulta una dura crítica tejida con poesía e inteligencia, ganadora del National Book Award de ficción en 1953. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," before retreating amid violence and confusion. Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, James Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

Poéticos, vivazes e intensos: assim são estes catorzes contos de Voando para casa e outras histórias, de Ralph Ellison, autor vencedor do Pulitzer por Homem invisível. Em uma mala de couro esquecida debaixo de uma mesa, Ralph Ellison, um dos maiores escritores estadunidenses do século XX, guardava uma série de manuscritos inéditos. Após a morte de Ellison, sua esposa, Fanny, presenteou John F. Callahan — editor e grande amigo do marido — com esses escritos. Assim, seis contos inéditos foram selecionados, junto a outros já publicados pela imprensa, para compor esta antologia Voando para casa e outras histórias. Aqui estão reunidos os primeiros contos de Ellison, escritos entre 1937 e 1954, nos quais o autor já aborda seu tema preferido: a formação de uma identidade negra nos Estados Unidos. Ao mesmo tempo, revela uma realidade particular que transcende a vida ordinária. Em catorze histórias curtas, leitoras e leitores encontrarão traços autobiográficos de um autor que soube transpassar sua vivência para a literatura. Herdeiro declarado do estilo cru e poético de Ernest Hemingway, Ellison nos emociona com a inocência infantil em "Garoto em um trem" e impressiona com a brutalidade dos linchamentos em "[Uma farra no parque]" — um retrato de um século XX que se faz atual ainda em tantos momentos. Publicados pela primeira vez no Brasil, os contos de Voan do para casa e outras histórias são considerados pela crítica o esboço de Homem invisível, a obra-prima de Ralph Ellison. A presente edição conta com tradução de André Capilé, poeta, tradutor, pesquisador de produções literárias afrodiaspóricas e professor de literatura brasileira na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. "Vistos em conjunto, os contos de Ellison apontam para sua visão consistente sobre a identidade estadunidense construída durante os cinquenta e cinco anos de vida em que ele escreveu." — John F. Callahan, escritor e crítico literário "Maravilhoso, anterior aos riffs de Homem invisível — e mais uma excelente contribuição para a obra de Ellison." — Kirkus Reviews "As histórias de Ellison demonstram, individualmente, seu comprometimento em criar e, em conjunto, a bagagem adquirida que, mais adiante, o permitiram construir, tijolo por tijolo, um dos maiores monumentos da literatura estadunidense." — Publishers Weekly "Ellison é um romancista completo, que utiliza as palavras com grande habilidade, que escreve com intensidade poética e imenso vigor narrativo." — The New York Times

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, and the story of a changing nation over six decades These extensive and revealing letters span the life of Ralph Ellison and provide a remarkable window into the great writer’s life and work, his friendships, rivalries, anxieties, and all the questions about identity, art, and the American soul that bedeviled and inspired him until his death. They include early notes to his mother, written as an impoverished college student; lively exchanges with the most distinguished American writers and thinkers of his time, from Romare Bearden to Saul Bellow; and letters to friends and family from his hometown of Oklahoma City, whose influence would always be paramount. These letters are beautifully rendered first-person accounts of Ellison’s life and work and his observations of a changing world, showing his metamorphosis from a wide-eyed student into a towering public intellectual who confronted and articulated America’s complexities.

From the author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition. "[A] stunning achievement. . . . Ellison sought no less than to create a Book of Blackness, a literary composition of the tradition at its most sublime and fundamental."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Time The story follows Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator, whose life takes an unexpected turn when he calls for Alonzo Hickman, an old Black minister, to be by his side as he faces a mortal wound. As the two men intimately share their stories and memories, the true shape and substance of the past begin to emerge. Here is Ellison, a virtuoso of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at the height of his powers, telling a moving, evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. With an introduction and additional notes by John F. Callahan, who first compiled Juneteenth out of thousands of manuscript pages in 1999, and a preface by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson. “Beautifully written and imaginatively conceived, Juneteenth, like Invisible Man, deserves to be read and reread by generations.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Homem invisível , de Ralph Ellison, o grande romance seminal do cânone afro-americano, retorna às livrarias com nova capa. Homem invisível narra a vida de um jovem afro-americano que migra do sul racista dos Estados Unidos em direção à Nova York, a cidade das oportunidades, nos primeiros anos do século XX. Ao longo da história, o protagonista se envolve com grupos políticos e núcleos sociais diversos, desde uma organização socialista até um movimento nacionalista negro, mas nunca se sente verdadeiramente visto ou compreendido. Com uma escrita rica e simbólica, Ellison cria uma obra que vai além da crítica racial, mergulhando em questões universais sobre a busca por identidade e o lugar do indivíduo na sociedade. Homem Invisível é uma reflexão poderosa e atemporal sobre a luta por reconhecimento e a complexidade da condição humana. Para o crítico Harold Bloom, "Mais de um terço de século após sua publicação original (1952), Homem invisível, de Ralph Ellison, está completamente confirmado como um clássico estadunidense." Essa edição ampliada tem texto de orelha assinado por Luiz Mauricio Azevedo e prefácio de Gabriel Trigueiro, especialistas na obra de Ellison Livro vencedor do National Book Awards. "Um dos romances mais importantes do século XX." – New York Times " Homem invisível, de Ralph Ellison, está completamente confirmado como um clássico estadunidense." – Harold Bloom

'If he only knew what it was, he would fix it; he would kill this mean thing that made Mama feel so bad.' Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series,with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

"Un home invisible" és una obra clau de la literatura nord-americana que ha captivat els lectors des de la seva aparició l'any 1952. Primera novel·la d'un autor fins aleshores desconegut, va assolir ràpidament un èxit popular enorme, i va rebre el Premi Nacional de Literatura de ficció, fets que van convertir Ralph Ellison en un dels escriptors més rellevants del segle XX. "Un home invisible" és un tour de force enginyós i apassionat. El protagonista anònim de la novel·la'una de les primeres que planteja el conflicte racial des del punt de vista dels negres'és un jove del sud dels Estats Units que es trasllada al nord en ser expulsat de la universitat per a negres on estudia. A Nova York sortirà de l'anonimat, es lliurarà a la missió de lluitar pels drets de la seva comunitat i s'erigirà en un dels seus portaveus, per acabar finalment sucumbint davant la violència i la confusió, mancat de veu i convertit en un home invisible.

Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”

The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life." -- Washington Post Book World The seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides us with dramatically fresh readings of William Faulkner and Richard Wright, along with new perspectives on the music of Duke Ellington and the art of Romare Bearden. He analyzes the subversive quality of black laughter, the mythic underpinnings of his masterpiece Invisible Man, and the extent to which America's national identity rests on the contributions of African Americans. Erudite, humane, and resounding with humor and common sense, the result is essential Ellison.

From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master. "Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become the man who would deny everything to achieve his goals? Here is the master of American vernacular at the height of his powers, evoking the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech. "An extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall." —Newsday

Before Ralph Ellison became one of America’s greatest writers, he was a musician and a student of jazz, writing widely on his favorite music for more than fifty years. Now, jazz authority Robert O’Meally has collected the very best of Ellison’s inspired, exuberant jazz writings in this unique anthology.

These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John Callahan). First serial to The New Yorker. NPR sponsorship. "From the Hardcover edition."

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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto.