Tolschack

To me, this book is a brilliant work because Ellison incorporates some very frightening aspects of the black experience in the south, at college, betrayal by the black community in the south and his migration to Harlem where he uses surrealism to describe events that occur. You can feel how the protagonist slowly detaches from reality at the paint factory, and later with the meetings, until you sense a total detachment of this mans identity and his purpose in life. A very moving book.