Play Book Tag discussion

I am so glad I finished at took Ellison's Invisible Man of my should read but haven't reading list. It is an important work of the 20th century which is described in wikipedia as "Kafka-like absurdity" and it is an apt description. For the reader it is at times rambling and confusing and our narrator tumbles from one peril's of Pauline misadventure to the next.

The narrator takes the reader on a tour of his life from the south to a southern HBCU to Harlem in NYC and finally to his ultimate invisibility. The narrator clearly wants to act with intelligence and moral clarity, but doesn't always achieve his goals.

We see the prejudice and racism at mid-twentieth century and wonder how much has changed since then.

While I am glad to have finished this book, I cannot honestly say that I enjoyed reading it. I found it somewhat difficult and done in a style I rarely read.