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Here Ellison uses Wright's preoccupation with interracial violence and graphic, near-surrealist detailing to provide the reader an ironic, ambiguous tale of a white boy, a moral innocent, coming of age.
Ellison drew this welcome partly because he was the first black writer to win a National Book Award (in 1953) and the only novelist among his contemporaries to win one of the major literary prizes.
It is a curious but perhaps essential dimension of the Ralph Ellison literary myth that he published only one novel, Invisible Man , and that his entire authority as a writer and intellectual rests on this work, which whites felt brought black writing of age, beyond mere protest and sociology.
"A Hard Time Keeping Up" is very much a Chester Himes-type of hard-boiled story told through Ellison's prism.
This strenuous ambition was confounded by a perfectionism that, as Ellison wrote in the introduction to his volume of essays Shadow and Act , made it somewhat "unreal" to even think of himself as a writer.