Editing Invisible Man (section)

== Reception ==
Critic [[Orville Prescott]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the novel "the most impressive work of fiction by an American Negro which I have ever read", and felt it marked "the appearance of a richly talented writer".<ref>{{cite news|last=Prescott|first=Orville|author-link=Orville Prescott|title=Books of the Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/ellison-invisible2.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=6 November 2013}}</ref> Novelist [[Saul Bellow]] in his review found it "a book of the very first order, a superb book...it is tragi-comic, poetic, the tone of the very strongest sort of creative intelligence".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bellow|first=Saul|author-link=Saul Bellow|title=Man Underground|url=https://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/bellow-on-ellison.html|magazine=[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]|date=June 1952|pages=608–610|access-date=9 January 2022|via=writing.[[upenn.edu]]}}</ref> George Mayberry of ''[[The New Republic]]'' said Ellison "is a master at catching the shape, flavor and sound of the common vagaries of human character and experience".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Mayberry|first=George|title=George Mayberry's 1952 Review of Ralph Ellison's ''Invisible Man''|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/114842/george-mayberry-ralph-ellison-invisible-man|magazine=[[The New Republic]]|date=September 26, 2013|access-date=9 January 2023}}</ref>

[[Anthony Burgess]] described the novel as "a masterpiece".<ref name="Burgess2014">{{cite book|author=[[Anthony Burgess]]|title=You've Had Your Time|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9AvZAgAAQBAJ|date=3 April 2014|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4735-1239-9|page=130}}</ref>

In 2003, a sculpture titled "Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison" by [[Elizabeth Catlett]], was unveiled at Riverside Park at 150th Street in Manhattan, opposite from where Ellison lived and three blocks from the [[Trinity Church Cemetery]] and Mausoleum, where he is interred in a crypt. The 15-foot-high, 10-foot-wide bronze monolith features a hollow silhouette of a man and two granite panels that are inscribed with Ellison quotations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/northernriversidepark/highlights/19691 |title=NYC Parks |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723223856/https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/northernriversidepark/highlights/19691 |url-status=live }}</ref>