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Fight Club (1996) is a Romance of Chuck Palahniuk in which the hero founds a club of combat in order to evacuate his discomfort. A film drawn from the novel was adapted in 1999 by David Fincher: Fight Club

Synopsis

The narrator is a young insomniac type which requires only one thing: to leave its monotonous daily newspaper. It meets Tyler Durden, with which it founds the fight club, a club of clandestine combat where young people fight to evacuate their faintness. It meets also Marla Singer, a suicidal drug addict in love with Tyler.

The novel criticizes the consumer society, universalization, sexual, ideological and physical contradictions. Those are so obvious that the only solution to surmount some is of living a schizophrenia in which the individual plays the part of two personalities to reach a certain psychological balance.

Anecdotes

an edition accompanied by an epilog is appeared in 2006 (only available in English).

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