Ralph Ellison Quote

While fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of as if, therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Ralph Ellison

While fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of as if, therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

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About Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). The New York Times dubbed him "among the gods of America's literary Parnassus".
A posthumous novel, Juneteenth, was published after being assembled from voluminous notes Ellison left upon his death.