Chuck Palahniuk's books are known all over the world. “Fight Club” is considered one of his best works. The novel was filmed, which brought even greater success and recognition to the writer. Attitudes towards the novel are ambiguous; some people like it, while others evoke negative emotions. The negative attitude is largely due to the fact that the details of human life described by the author are sometimes disgusting and cruel. Therefore, sensitive individuals are advised to read with caution. However, it is this cruelty that reveals the truth of life, which not everyone dares to write about; it is this style of storytelling that makes the book a masterpiece.
The author does not name the main character, which has a certain subtext. The narrator talks about his not at all bright life, about his surroundings. He sees a world that is full of people who want to acquire as many things as possible. He is disgusted by this consumerist attitude towards everything. He is irritated by a society where things, money, any material objects are the main value. He also draws attention to the fact that in modern society there are a lot of women raising their children alone, which does not give them the opportunity to raise full-fledged men.
The hero resists such a life with all his soul, it leads him to mental disorders. He has insomnia, and the doctor advises him to attend classes for terminally ill patients in order to understand what real suffering is. But the effect does not last long. After some time, the Narrator meets a guy named Tyler, they become friends. One day there is a clash between them, they fight in a bar. Subsequently, they understand that with the help of a fight they throw out their emotions and thus struggle with problems. They create a secret Fight Club, which over time takes on a completely different nature of activity.
Chuck Palahniuk raises pressing issues of the modern world. A world of disposable things, a disposable world. Objects enslave people. And the horrors described by the writer are actually not as nightmarish as they seem at first glance. One has only to turn on the evening news and this will become clear. The book will not leave anyone indifferent.
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The release of Fight Club caused a stir in literary circles. This work was truly read by people from all over the world. The book is truly rebellious and controversial, preaching anarchism in its extreme forms. At the center of the novel is the main character, who suffers from insomnia due to loss of interest in life. He does not accept a consumer society that is concerned only with the accumulation of material wealth, and is also dissatisfied with the way masculinity is understood in American culture. The main character protests against the office plankton, which is faceless and identical in its mass. These people do not know how to fight back their superiors, enemies, etc., but simply meekly cave in to this greedy world. And as a rebellion against such a spineless, silent society, the main character creates his own system, called Fight Club, a club for real men, where participants are taught self-destruction, not self-improvement, where men are taught to fight back against offenders, where participants arrange tough, bloody battles without rules.
But is this idea as good as it seems at first glance? The main character says that we need to fight against the sleek, white-collar society. But, in his opinion, a real man is a brutal alpha male who solves all his problems with his fists and blood. And others are simply infantile individuals, subordinate to matriarchy and female feminism. But infantilism is precisely immaturity in development, the inability to make thoughtful decisions, these are emotions that overflow. Brutal fights, violence and blood are not a sign of masculinity, but on the contrary, a feature of the development of people who are frozen in the pubescent period. These are individuals who dream of feeling cool, and precisely because of self-doubt, fears and complexes, they try to protest not against the world, but against themselves, a pathetic loser. These are people, like the main character, who do not know how to love. They associate the word love with the verb “to possess” and not “to care.”
After all, in fact, when a person is self-sufficient, will she prove anything to anyone? If a person believes that the world around him is not built correctly, will he destroy it with extreme methods? The answer is clear. He will improve it, in particular, starting, first of all, with himself. He will try to improve himself, and not self-destruct. After all, what forms does the protagonist’s protest take? Beat a person half to death, do some generally unthinkable things, such as adding your own urine to customers’ soup... And this is a protest?! Is this a statement that we are better than you, people of the consumer society? I wonder what? After all, you throw only anger, hatred and uncontrolled aggression into this world. And somewhere in the depths of the soul, envy is hidden, because how else can one explain the vile dirty tricks that the members of the fight club do secretly? From this point of view, the story of the protagonist is simply harmful for the common man. But the main moral is that our character himself eventually understands this. But often understanding occurs too late, the disease progresses... Is it possible to cleanse the world of filth through violence? The goal should never justify the means to achieve it. Under no circumstances. And what could happen in the opposite case, Chuck Palahniuk showed us at the end of his famous, shocking novel...
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Year of issue: 1996
Chuck Palahniuk
Series: No series
Genre: Thriller, Prose
Number of pages: 256
Format: fb2
Note (status): Fully
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The main character of this story does not live, but simply suffers. Having a poorly paid job, he is also forced to travel on business trips on which his superiors send him. This leads to serious sleep disturbance and, as a result, insomnia. But the man does not attach much importance to this. He is used to such a life and tries to simply “go with the flow.” As for his entertainment, he has one thing - he likes to attend groups for dying people and listen to them. Thanks to this, he understands that his life is not yet as terrible as theirs.
But one day he meets a rather strange guy, Tyler Durden. This happened at a time when he was trying to build the shadow of a human hand from wooden logs. This meeting predetermined the fates of both of them, because it was they, after a series of unpleasant situations in the life of the main character, who would create a group called “Fight Club”, which can only be joined in one way - by taking a fight...
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“Fight Club” is the first published novel by American writer Chuck Palahniuk, which launched the writer’s creative career. The film of the same name, shot in Hollywood with the participation of Brad Pitt and Edward Norton based on the novel, further increased the popularity of the work and increased interest in it.
The main character can only be called the Narrator. His real name is not mentioned, which skillfully emphasizes the hero's problem with self-identification. The narrator works as an insurance claims consultant. Despite the fact that he has to travel a lot due to his line of work, his life cannot be called bright, filled with meaning and impressions. The narrator lives in a consumer society, where everyone only wants to accumulate and use, thinking little about the future and eternal values. His world is also spoiled by his wrong upbringing and approach to life. In it, mothers are accustomed to taking care of their children alone, and are unable to cultivate masculinity and responsibility in boys. It is filled with feminism and treatises on how a woman can achieve success. All the actions and behavior of the hero are a protest against this state of affairs, a desire to change something and find oneself.
The narrator suffers from insomnia. The doctor advises him to attend a support group for terminally ill patients as therapy. This has a positive effect until the hero meets Marla, a girl who, like him, comes to courses and deceives others. She is not terminally ill. The girl is saved from the fear of death by looking at the suffering of truly dying people. This lie and illusion brings disappointment to the Narrator.
For unknown reasons, an explosion occurs in his apartment. All his property and the house itself are destroyed by fire. For temporary residence, the Narrator goes to his only friend Tyler, whom he accidentally met on the beach during a recent vacation. Tyler turns out to be the exact opposite of the Narrator. He is courageous, energetic, charming, independent, and has the courage to commit extravagant acts that do not fit into the general system of norms and decency. For example, he can shit in someone else’s food while working part-time as a waiter, or make high-quality soap for sale from human fat taken during a liposuction procedure.
One day, a fight breaks out between them in a bar. With its help, they throw out their emotions and in the process realize that they are fighting so fiercely not with each other, but with their problems. Friends gather a group of people with similar interests and needs, and a fight club is founded in the basement of the same bar. Over time, it grows into a whole network of clubs, also in other cities. For its participants, fighting is a unique form of psychotherapy and protest.
But soon this is not enough for Tyler, and he turns the fight club into Project Mayhem, an organization that deals with acts of vandalism, robbery and terrorism. Its members oppose the culture of white-collar society and local officials by attacking them and amputating their genitals.
The narrator learns that Tyler is planning a major terrorist attack - the explosion of a skyscraper. He's trying to prevent it. And at this time he finally understands that Tyler is himself, his alter ego. To stop his other self, the Narrator shoots himself in the mouth, trying to kill them both. But he does not die, but ends up in a psychiatric hospital. He does not understand this, but he realizes that the terrorist attack did not take place, and this is his victory.
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