Being Invisible | Literary Precedents
Berger cites two novels as conscious influences on this novel—H. G. Wells's The Invisible Man (1897; see separate entry) and Ralph Ellison's epic novel of black consciousness Invisible Man (1952; see separate entry). Wells depicted invisibility as a daring scientific experiment and used most of his narrative to describe the puzzling events as viewed from the perspectives of normal villagers, police officers, and scientific researchers. Ellison's novel does not employ outright fantasy at all, but uses invisibility as a metaphor for the social situation of the black...
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