A scene from Fight Club

Palahniuk's Fight Club Punch: We Never See It Coming

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

W. W. Norton; Reprint edition

3 October 2005, 224 pages, $13.95

[21 March 2007]

by Savannah Schroll Guz

With Fight Club, whether he intended to or not, Palahniuk has shown us that fascism can be created right before our eyes, almost invisibly, and we won’t even see it happening.

It’s interesting to read an article that finally exposes the facism of Tyler Durden. I tried and failed (literally, since I lost my scholarship after not revising it) to write a paper my freshman in college that pointed out a parallel between Project Mayhem and the Futurist movement, which led to the rise of Italian fascism. Thanks for aiming your more literary mind in that same direction.

Comment by Aaron from Dc — March 22, 2007 @ 3:39 pm

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