Fight Club

Fight Club{{ref|lowercase}} (1996) is the first published novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The plot is based around an unnamed protagonist who struggles with his growing discomfort with consumerism and changes in the state of masculinity in American culture. In an attempt to overcome this, he creates an underground boxing club as a new form of therapy. The novel was made into a movie of the same name in 1999 by director David Fincher, which resulted in the story becoming a pop culture phenomenon. 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.

Notes

• {{note|lowercase}}Throughout the book, Palahniuk writes the name of the club in lower case. The only occurrence of Fight Club as a proper noun is in the novel's title. Thus, all references to "fight club" in this article refer to the fictional club, while references to Fight Club refer to the novel itself.
• {{note|2rules}} The first rules of both fight club and Project Mayhem are repeated for emphasis. Fans of the novel and the film have latched on to the first two rules of fight club as a meme and have made it into a catchphrase.
• {{note|unreliable}}The narrator's inability to explain Tyler's existence earlier on in the story is a classic example of an unreliable narrator.