《看不见的人》是美国著名的黑人作家拉尔夫·艾里森所作的一部长篇小说,也是被公认为当代美国文学的一部经典作品。它是一部以身份危机和现代人追求自我为主题的小说,描写的是一个无名无姓的普通黑人青年躲在纽约一家的地下室里叙述自己从种族歧视根深蒂固的南方来到北方寻求自我,努力实现自己的社会地位,从无知到觉醒,从看不见到看得见的转变过程。这部小说一经出版, Invisible Man is a novel made by American famous black writer Ralph Ellison and is also regarded as a classic work of contemporary American literature. It is a novel that focuses on identity crisis and the modern pursuit of self. It depicts an anonymous black ordinary man hiding in the basement of a New York city. He narrates that he has come to the north for self-seeking and hard work from the deeply rooted south of racial discrimination Realize their social status, from ignorance to awakening, from invisible to visible changes in the process. Once published,