Shadow & act /
Ralph Ellison
- 1.ed.
- New York.: Random House, 1964
- 317p.: 22cm
When the first of these essays was published I regarded, myself in my most secret hear at least a musician .This was the result, in part, of a complicated, semiconscious strategy where my left hand was headed. Actually I had been devoting as much time and energy to reading and noon, in acquiring the basic knowledge and writing as to music, and was passionately engaged, night and noon, in acquiring the basic knowledge and skills of the novelist.