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...process, the fact-finder has typically interviewed many students—up to 45 in one extreme case, according to Ellison??and written an extensive case report summarizing the information obtained from the witness testimonies and other research...
...books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” and Ralph Ellison??s “Invisible Man”—which suggests that there should be a different focus in the traditionally novel-dominated study of 20th century American literature...
...thoroughness of the publisher’s collection helps to highlight the virtuosity of Ellison??s work. Quickly written drafts from the 1950s are presented alongside Ellison??s final computer files from the early 1990s. Because several scenes are represented multiple times, it is possible to see Ellison??s attempts to refine and unify his work. This provides rare insight into the writing process of a literary master—even if that writing process was not wholly successful...
...damage, the smashed incompleteness, made me realize as never before the grandeur of its inspiration.” The same might be said of “Three Days Before the Shooting...,” a collection whose lack of narrative cohesion makes the book itself a commentary on Ellison??s declaration of the essentially fragmented nature of our experience...
...final sequences of Ellison??s narrative, which occur early on in his manuscript, leave Sunraider facing not hopelessness but uncertainty. Bliss lies in critical condition but is still alive, with Hickman helping him finally retrace the complexity of his muddled experience. Hickman’s advice to Bliss is equally applicable to Ellison??s unfinished novel: “Somewhere through all the falseness and the forgetting,” Hickman urges, “there is something solid and good...