TITLE: Fight Club
AUTHOR: Chuck Palahniuk
TYPE OF WORK: Novel
GENRE: Transgressional fiction, Satirical fiction
LANGUAGE: English
TIME WRITTEN: 1996
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: August 17, 1996
PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton
POINT OF VIEW: First person
TENSE: Past
MAJOR CHARACTERS: The Narrator, Tyler Durden, Marla Singer
MAJOR THEMES: Masculinity, Anti-consumerism, Anarchy
FORESHADOWING: The novel begins with a gun pointed inside the narrator's mouth by Tyler in the first chapter. Bombs are planted around several buildings with only minutes left until detonation. The chapter ends with the narrator reflecting that "I remember everything." (15), where he then describes all of the events that eventually lead to this climatic end.
AUTHOR: Chuck Palahniuk
TYPE OF WORK: Novel
GENRE: Transgressional fiction, Satirical fiction
LANGUAGE: English
TIME WRITTEN: 1996
DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: August 17, 1996
PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton
POINT OF VIEW: First person
TENSE: Past
MAJOR CHARACTERS: The Narrator, Tyler Durden, Marla Singer
MAJOR THEMES: Masculinity, Anti-consumerism, Anarchy
FORESHADOWING: The novel begins with a gun pointed inside the narrator's mouth by Tyler in the first chapter. Bombs are planted around several buildings with only minutes left until detonation. The chapter ends with the narrator reflecting that "I remember everything." (15), where he then describes all of the events that eventually lead to this climatic end.