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The Intuitionist
1999 novel by Colson Whitehead
The Intuitionist
The Intuitionist is a 1999 postmodern philosophical speculative fiction novel by American writer Colson Whitehead. The Intuitionist is set in a fictional world, taking place in a city (implicitly, New York) full of skyscrapers and other buildings requiring vertical transportation in the form of elevators. The era, never identified explicitly, is one when black people are called "colored" and integration is a current topic. The protagonist is Lila Mae Watson, an elevator inspector of the "Intuitionist" school. The Intuitionists practice an inspecting method by which they ride in an elevator and intuit the state of the elevator and its related systems. The competing school, the "Empiricists", insists upon traditional instrument-based verification of the condition of the elevator. Watson is the second black inspector and the first black female inspector in the city.
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