“Foreign Literature” introduces the reader to the African-American writer Ralph Ellison (1914–1994), famous for his novel “The Invisible Man” (1952), about which the author of the introduction and translator of all guide materials, Olga Panova, writes, among other things: “Ralph Ellison was I am firmly convinced that a name determines one’s destiny. Here in Russia this conviction of his was confirmed in the most decisive way. The novel suffered the fate of an “invisible book”: almost sixty years have passed since its publication, it has long been translated into many languages, and the Russian reader still has only a translation of a single chapter made by V. Golyshev back in 1985, yes various references to the “great but unknown” novel in books and articles about twentieth-century US literature.” The Literary Guide also includes an excerpt from The Invisible Man, an interview the writer gave to the Paris Review in 1955, and Saul Bellow's response to the death of Ralph Ellison.