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The novel Invisible Man has been described as a Kafkaesque novel. It has also been called a picaresque novel with has furthermore, been described as an existential novel. It contains penetrating psychological passages and a profound treatment of its theme as well as a realistic status of one of the masterpieces of American fiction and one of the greatest triumphs in the field of novel-writing in the twentieth century. Analyzing the modern novelist's task, Ellison observed that he had to find, "for himself and for his readers some new insight into the human predicament, some new facet of human possibility". The novel primarily communicated "a vision" of a particular experience that achieved "its university, if at all, through accumulating images of reality and arranging them in patterns" of a broader experience. Ellison's central purpose in writing "Invisible Man" was to portray the black protagonist in the novel as possessing the full complex ambiguity of the human as against the stereotype image of the black man. In order to portray the Negro character possessing the full, complex ambiguity of the human, Ellison in "Invisible Man" presents what he calls the Black American experience in its widest scope and variety from the Reconstruction period to World War-II. He has compelled the white society the urgency reexamining project of "Humanism" upheld with pride since time immemorial. It was only in the 20th century there is a radical revision of "Humanism" that tried to accommodate the problems of Race, Class & Caste.