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Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

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Language
French
Published
1999
Publisher
Editions Gallimard
Pages
272
ISBN
9782070748556
Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, men with white collars and mundane lives are shedding their inhibitions and beating each other to a pulp. An unnamed narrator, suffocating in his consumer-driven life and plagued by insomnia, finds a strange form of relief in these secret, bare-knuckle brawls. This is the world of fight club, an underground movement founded with the enigmatic and charismatic Tyler Durden, a man who represents everything the narrator is not.

What begins as a radical form of therapy, a way for men to feel alive in a world that has left them numb, soon spirals into something much more dangerous. The simple rules of fight club give way to the escalating ambitions of Project Mayhem, a campaign of anti-corporate vandalism that threatens to bring society to its knees. As the lines between his ordinary life and his violent secret blur, the narrator is forced to confront the dark reality of his creation and the true nature of the man who inspired it all. This is a visceral exploration of identity, rebellion, and the desperate search for meaning in a world that offers none.

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