Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Alex Blazer (Georgia College and State University)

Ed. by Christopher Hugh Gair, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1996

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Narrator and Plot

Chuck Palahniuk’s grotesque, minimalist, and satirical books are populated by self-destructive protagonists, often service industry workers who live on society’s fringes because of castigating class determination or middle-class bourgeoisie, who make the free transgressive choice to leave the cultural center. The first-person point of view narrative, written in the unadorned and decidedly nonliterary style of everyday thought and speech, takes the reader inside the mind of the sole survivor of a suicide cult made rich off the backs of domestic slaves, himself now hijacking a plane (sans passengers) in order to crash it (Survivor, 1999); inside the mind of a model who shot herself in the face in …

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Citation: Blazer, Alex. "Fight Club". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 August 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23224, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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