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Ральф Уолдо Эллисон — афроамериканский писатель, литературовед и критик, эссеист. Наиболее известен своим единственным законченным романом «Человек-невидимка» , который принёс ему Национальную книжную премию в 1953 году. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Март 1914 – 16. Апрель 1994   •   Другие имена رالف الیسون, Ռալֆ Էլլիսոն, رالف إيلسون
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“Play the game, but don't believe in it.”

Ralph Ellison книга Invisible Man

Источник: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 7.

“Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.”

"If the Twain Shall Meet" (1964), inThe Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 569.

“…there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”

Ralph Ellison книга Invisible Man

Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)

“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget."”

Ralph Ellison книга Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)

“Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.”

Ralph Ellison книга Three Days Before the Shooting...

Источник: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 311.

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.”

"Remembering Jimmy" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 277.

“When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.”

"Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 108.

“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”

Ralph Ellison книга Invisible Man

Источник: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 1.

“Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.”

Ralph Ellison книга Invisible Man

Источник: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 5.

“Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in.”

"Society, Morality and the Novel" (1957), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 726.

“But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.”

Ralph Ellison книга Invisible Man

Источник: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 11.

“Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.”

"Society, Morality and the Novel" (1957), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 699.

“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”

Ralph Ellison книга Three Days Before the Shooting...

Источник: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 987.