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Ralph Waldo Ellison, né le 1er mars 1914 à Oklahoma City, dans l'Oklahoma, et mort le 16 avril 1994 à New York, est un intellectuel et écrivain afro-américain. Son œuvre majeure est le roman Invisible Man qui a remporté le National Book Award en 1953. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. mars 1914 – 16. avril 1994   •   Autres noms رالف الیسون, Ռալֆ Էլլիսոն, رالف إيلسون
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Ralph Ellison: Citations en anglais

“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”

Ralph Ellison livre Shadow and Act

Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.

“And yet I am what they think I am.”

Ralph Ellison livre Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 17.

“The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.”

"The Little Man at Chehaw Station" (1978), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 503.

“…to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”

Ralph Ellison livre Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 13.

“Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.”

"The Essential Ellison", interview by Ishmael Reed in Y'Bird 1, no. 1 (1978): 130-59.

“…there's always an element of crime in freedom.”

Ralph Ellison livre Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 7.

“The truth is the light and light is the truth.”

Ralph Ellison livre Invisible Man

Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)

“Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. […] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.”

"Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 81.

“Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.”

"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 133.

“Commercial rock ’n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.”

"Some Questions and Some Answers" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 298.

“By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.”

"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 218.

“Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.”

Ralph Ellison livre Invisible Man

Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.”

"The Art of Fiction: An Interview" (The Paris Review, Spring 1955), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 217.

“…there must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientist, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”

"Brave Words for a Startling Occasion" (1953), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 153.

“Words are everything and don't you forget it, ever.”

Ralph Ellison livre Three Days Before the Shooting...

Source: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 251.

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