The Invisible Man The Invisible Man The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in "Pearson's Weekly" in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. An enthusiast of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has
Invisible Man to project? Finally, why is it that so many of those who would tell us the meaning of Negro life never bother to learn how varied it really is?" Ellison's Invisible Man dovetails two movements, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement. John Oliver Killens once denounced Invisible Man by saying: “The Negro people need Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man like we need a hole in the head or a stab in the back. ... It is a vicious distortion of Negro life." Ellison's influences include, among others, The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot; Ellison spent some time tracking down