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Fight Club ( 1996) is the first published novel by Chuck Palahniuk, in which an unnamed protagonist struggles with the commercialization of American culture and male disenfranchisement through fighting. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1999 directed by David Fincher. A reissued version of the novel was published in 2004 that begins with an introduction by the author which talks about the conception and popularity of both the novel and the movie. As of June 23, 2004 Fight Club is in development as a musical, developed by Palahniuk and Fincher.
When Palahniuk made his first attempt at publishing a novel ( Invisible Monsters) publishers rejected it for being too disturbing. This led him to work on Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him. Palahniuk wrote this story in between working while on the job for Freightliner. After initially publishing it as a short story in the compilation Pursuit of Happiness (which would become chapter 6 of the novel), Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which, contrary to what he expected, the publisher was willing to publish. While the original, hardcover edition of the book received positive reviews and some awards, it had a short shelf life. Nevertheless, the book had made its way to Hollywood, where interest in adapting it to film was growing. It was eventually adapted in 1999 by director David Fincher. The film was a box office disappointment (although it was #1 at the U.S. box office in its first weekend) and critical reaction was mixed, but a cult following soon emerged. Two paperback rereleases of the novel, one in 1999 and the other in 2004, were later made. This success helped launch Palahniuk's career as a popular novelist, as well as establish a writing style that would appear in all later books by the author.
Many events in the novel were based on experiences that Palahniuk himself had experienced. The support groups that the narrator attends are based on support groups that the author brought terminally ill people to as part of a volunteer job he did for a local hospice. The club itself was based on a series of fights that Palahniuk got into over previous years. Project Mayhem is loosely based on the Cacophony Society, of which Palahniuk is a member.
The book centers around a nameless narrator who hates his job and the way his life currently is. The narrator works for an unnamed car company, organising recalls on defective models if and only if the cost of the recall is less than the total cost of out-of-court settlements paid to relatives of the deceased (which parallels the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends story of Ford PintoThe Ford Pinto was a compact car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. It was first introduced in 1971, and was built through the 1980 model year. Like many Ford cars, it had a twin in the Mercury Bobcat. Body styles included a 2-door sedan, a three-doo recalls). This combined with his growing disenchantment with the consumerist lifestyle he has been living cause him to suffer from chronic insomniaFor the novel by Stephen King, see Insomnia (novel). Insomnia is a sleep disorder characterised by an inability to sleep and/or to remain asleep for a reasonable period during the night. Sufferers typically complain of being unable to close their eyes for.
At the recommendation of his doctor (who doesn't consider insomnia to be a serious ailment), the narrator goes to a support group for men with testicular cancer to "see what real suffering is like". After finding that crying at these support groups and listening to emotional outpourings from suffering individuals allows him to sleep at night, he becomes addicted to attending them. At the same time, he befriends a cancer victim named Bob. Although he does not suffer from any of the ailments that the other attendants have, he is nevertheless never caught being a "tourist". However, one day at a support group he meets Marla Singer, a woman who also attends support groups without needing them for their original purpose. Her presence "reflects" the narrator's "tourism", and only reminds him that he doesn't belong at the support groups. This causes him to be unable to cry and consequently causes him to hate Marla. As a result of both of these factors, the narrator is once again unable to control his insomnia. After a short confrontation between the two, they begin going to separate support groups in order to avoid bumping into each other again.
His life changes radically when, in the aftermath of this incident, he meets Tyler Durden, a beach artist who works low-paying jobs at night in order to perform deviant behavior on the job. After the narrator's condo is destroyed by an explosion, he asks Tyler if he can stay at his place. Tyler agrees, but asks for one favor: "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." The resulting fight in a bar's parking lot attracts more disenchanted males, and a new form of support group, the first "fight club", is born. The fight club becomes a new type of therapy through bare-knuckleBare-knuckle is a phrase often used to distinguish between boxing with gloves and the more ancient form of combat sport performed by two individuals fighting without any gloves or other form of padding on their hands. The practice dates back at least to A fighting, controlled by a set of eight rules (the first rule is repeated for emphasis):
As fight club's membership grows, Tyler begins to use it to spread anti-consumerist ideas and recruits its members to participate in increasingly elaborate attacks on corporate AmericaCorporate America is an informal phrase describing the business world of the United States. It is frequently used in a negative sense that implies greed and lack of social responsibility.. This was originally the narrator's idea, but Tyler eventually takes control from him and the narrator becomes uncomfortable with the increasing destructiveness of their activities after it results in the death of Bob. Tyler eventually gathers the most devoted fight club members and forms "Project Mayhem", a cultThis article discusses only religious or sociological cultist groups, and small or new religious groups considered harmful or strange by the public, media or anti-cult activists. This article does not discuss "cult" in its original sense of "religious pra-like organization that trains itself as an army to bring down modern civilization. As the narrator endeavors to stop Tyler and his followers, he comes to realize that he is Tyler. Tyler is not a separate person, but a separate personalityOverview In psychiatry, Dissociative Identity Disorder DID is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and Multiple Personality Syndrome . The Int; he is born from the narrator's unconscious want to be with Marla despite his conscious hatred for her, which was the final straw in causing his mind to snap from the stress of his life. The story climaxes in a conflict between the "real" narrator, trying to regain control of his own mind and prevent a disaster that Tyler has set into motion, and the calculating Tyler, who always seems to be one step ahead.
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