![]() ![]() Humor, more than various types of serious plots, is a hit-or-miss affair. ![]() Humorous books seem to be ones that some people love and others hate. ![]() The reason he always fails is said best by his mother near the end of the novel, "You have learned everything except how to be a human being." Ignatius is not just a physical grotesque, he is an emotional grotesque as well - he is us stripped of the veneer of civilisation, a reveller at the carnival. He may want to re-make the world in his image but at least he wants to change it, to better it. It's interesting that while everyone picks up on how repulsive Ignatius is no-one seems to have noticed that Ignatius is also the only person who has plans, no matter how misguided or egotistical they are, to help others most of the other characters in the novel only care about their own material needs. The novel is essentially a carnival in the truest sense, a celebration of the grotesque. Rather than being someone to be redeemed (he can't be redeemed through art anyway as the character believes that there is no such thing as modern art), he is our guide through the carnival. Ignatius is a monster he's supposed to be a monster. ![]()
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