Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk , James Colby , Javier Calvo Perales , Jordi Cussà Balaguer (b. 1962)

Fiction Millennialism Young Men Science Fiction Open Syllabus Project

W. W. Norton • October 3, 2005 • 224 pages

About the Author

Chuck Palahniuk

b. 1962

Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel <em>Fight Club</em>, which was later made into a...

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A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together.

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the basement of bars. There, two men fight "as long as they have to." This is a gloriously original work that exposes the darkness at the core of our modern world.