All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.


The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated (ed. Modern Library, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307797025


All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these...

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these...

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these...

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these...