New Releases by Ralph Ellison

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.

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

Stories of belonging and alienation, violence and beauty, racial injustice and unexpected kindness, froma writer of soaring emotion and lyricism.

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read 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. Saul Bellow dijo sobreEl hombre invisible... «Un libro de primerísimo orden, una novela superba.» ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The nameless narrator of the novel 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", and retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.

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. Saul Bellow dijo sobre El hombre invisible... «Un libro de primerísimo orden, una novela soberbia.»

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.

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.

This absorbing collection of letters spans a decade in the lifelong friendship of two remarkable writers who engaged the subjects of literature, race, and identity with deep clarity and passion. The correspondence begins in 1950 when Ellison is living in New York City, hard at work on his enduring masterpiece, Invisible Man, and Murray is a professor at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Mirroring a jam session in which two jazz musicians "trade twelves"—each improvising twelve bars of music around the same musical idea-their lively dialog centers upon their respective writing, the jazz they both love so well, on travel, family, the work literary contemporaries (including Richard Wright, James Baldwin, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway) and the challenge of racial inclusiveness that they wish to pose to America through their craft. Infused with warmth, humor, and great erudition, Trading Twelves offers a glimpse into literary history in the making—and into a powerful and enduring friendship.

Shot on the Senate floor, a dying racist senator summons an elderly black preacher from Georgia to his side.

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.

Set in Washington DC in the 1950s, an elderly black Baptist minister from Georgia visits a Senator on his deathbed. Their conversation and the memories it sparks take them back through the deeply buried secrets of their shared past, and finally to the tragic event that first brought them together.

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Interviews with the author of Invisible Man and many other works

Ralph Elllison''s Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching--yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it. After a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero''s high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New York''s Harlem, where most of the action takes place. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures, in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed--as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity of the blindness of others. Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization; it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro''s anomalous position in American society.