Work · Novel · 1996

Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk, author

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Units: 30 chapters

Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel, narrated by an unnamed insomniac who co-founds an underground fight club with the charismatic Tyler Durden, an alliance that escalates into the anti-consumerist terror campaign Project Mayhem.

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Novel 1996 → Film 1999 · Direct adaptationFight ClubDavid Fincher and screenwriter Jim Uhls keep Chuck Palahniuk's plot mechanism, narrative voice, and unflinching content nearly intact. Their one invention is in the rewritten ending: the buildings collapse as planned while the narrator watches, holding Marla's hand, replacing the novel's asylum ending.88composite · editorial

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