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 07 October 2024.]

23224 Fight Club 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.

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