![]() ![]() ![]() One of the infinite number of go-betweens in this culture (his job is to determine the expenses of recalling lethally defective automobiles), the narrator yearns to die in an airplane crash in order to free himself from the superficiality of a world that trivializes death and immortalizes the unliving commodity (a “necrophilous” culture, as Erich Fromm would say). He attends testicular-cancer support groups in order to enhance his vitality: By distinguishing himself as much as possible from the sick, he attempts to wrest himself away from a consumerist culture that suppresses death by exposing himself to the mortality of others (which grants him the knowledge that he also is going to die), every moment in his life becomes more valuable. ![]() The thirty-year-old narrator of Fight Club feels alive only when surrounded by decrepitude and death. IF YOU ARE AT LEAST TWENTY-EIGHT (28) YEARS OF AGE, FEEL FREE TO CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ MY NOVEL WATCH OUT: THE FINAL VERSION.Īn Analysis of FIGHT CLUB (Chuck Palahniuk) by Joseph Sugliaīefore discussing the form of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996), I would like to reconstruct its political content. ![]()
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