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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9459
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 03:59 pm: | |
I finally finished Arnold Rampersad's biography of Ralph Ellison and Ralph didn't come across as such an admirable character in this book. After the success of "Invisible Man", he spent the rest of his life, living off his reputation, in denial about the fact that he did not have another book in him. I was also disappointed in how he "outgrew" Langston Hughes and snubbed Toni Morrison and scorned James Baldwin. Ellison's long-suffering wife, whom he was also very insensitive toward, attributed the "snobbish elitism" many accused her husband of, to his being a tempermental genius. |