The Nation, June 14th, 1999
JUNETEENTH. By Ralph Ellison. Introduction and Afterword by John F. Callahan. Random House. 368 pp. $25. Upon his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind some 2,000 pages of a never-finished second novel-more than forty years of fine-tuning what his literary executor, John F. Callahan, calls a "mythic saga of race and identity, language and kinship in the American experience" and what the despairing rest of us, waiting for Ralph like Lefty or Godot, came to think of as The Invisible Book. Two decades of stingy excerpts, from 1959 through 1977, were followed by two more of enigmatic silence. ...
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