Fight Club (novel)

The protagonist works as an insurance benefit consultant for a car manufacturing company. Because of his work, he constantly travels around the country. On trips the hero is surrounded by disposable things and disposable people, a whole disposable world. The hero suffers from insomnia, due to which he is already struggling to respond to reality. Despite the torment of the Storyteller, the doctor does not prescribe sleeping pills for him, but advises him to simply relax and visit a support group for terminally ill people to see what real suffering looks like. The protagonist finds that visiting a support group somewhat improves his condition, despite the fact that he is not terminally ill.

Taking a vacation, the Storyteller goes to the beach, where he meets a strange young man named Tyler Durden , who creates with the help of logs the shadow of a giant hand to sit next to perfection for a minute. But rest does not help and the hero returns to the only remedy that saves him from insomnia - visiting support groups for dying from various diseases. But these meetings helped before they began to attend Marla Singer - a girl fleeing the fear of death by watching people who really die. After the appearance of Marla, support groups cease to help and the hero again loses sleep. Perhaps it was Marla who reminded him that he was a deceiver who should not be in this group. He begins to hate Marla for this. After a quarrel, they decide to visit different support groups so as not to meet each other, however, insomnia returns to the Storyteller.

Soon, during one of the hero’s trips, his luggage with a set of necessary things was suspected of having explosives and was detained on the other side of the country. An explosion occurs in his apartment, completely destroying it. All things of the Storyteller, all his furniture, his life are destroyed in the flame of an explosion. The narrator has nowhere to go, and he goes to his only acquaintance - Tyler. After an evening at the bar in the parking lot of this bar, Tyler asks the Storyteller to hit him: “I want you to hit me with all your might” ^[1] . Gradually, the clumsy exchange of blows develops into a fight, in which both participants splash out their problems and fight not with each other, but with their problems, enjoying the fight. Soon other people join the main characters, later this “group for fights” moves to the basement of the bar and turns into a “fighting club”. At the same time, the main character moves to Tyler, in an abandoned and dilapidated house on Paper Street. The club has its own rules, which no one dares to violate, even its organizers:

1. Do not tell anyone about the fight club.
2. Never tell anyone about a fight club ^{[approx. 2]} .
3. If the adversary has lost consciousness or pretends to have lost consciousness or says “Enough”, the fight is over ^{[approx. 3]} .
4. Only two are involved in a fight.
5. No more than one fight at a time.
6. Soldiers fight without shoes and naked to the waist.
7. The fight lasts as long as required.
8. A beginner must accept the battle ^[1] .

Original text

1. You don't talk about fight club.
2. You don't talk about fight club.
3. When someone says stop, or goes limp, even if he's just faking it, the fight is over.
4. Only two guys to a fight.
5. One fight at a time.
6. They fight without shirts or shoes.
7. The fights go on as long as they have to.
8. If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

- 8 rules of the fighting club ^{[approx. four]}

Tyler slowly introduces the Storyteller into his world and his social circle. So the heroes find themselves at various receptions several times (where they act as servants), where they engage in petty hooliganism (for example, pee in someone else's soup). Meanwhile, the Fight Club is gaining popularity, its branches are opening throughout the country. Over time, Tyler convinces the hero that this is not enough and more compelling methods of influencing the world are needed. So the club’s pupils have “homework” that they must unquestioningly carry out (basically these are various acts of vandalism, for example, to fight with the first person on the street, throw a TV out the window, etc.). Gradually, a male hobby turns into an underground organization.

Deciding to commit suicide, Marla swallows a sleeping pill and calls the Narrator, but Tyler picks up the phone. He brings her to himself, saves her from suicide and engages in sexual intercourse, which causes Strange Storyteller's envy. In the meantime, under the slogans of the struggle against the modern white-collar society, the club is turning into the Smash project. Tyler begins large-scale training of fighters. To do this, the abandoned building, where the heroes live, turns into a training ground, where the pupils undergo severe military training. After several acts of vandalism, the hunt for local officials begins, where the genitals amputate them (as a sign of edification and a lesson for others). In addition, the militants are preparing a powerful terrorist act. The “rout” project also has a number of rules:

1. Do not ask questions about the Smash Project.
2. Never ask questions about the Smash Project.
3. Excuses are not accepted.
4. Do not lie.
5. Tyler is always right.

Original text

1. You don't ask questions.
2. You don't ask questions.
3. No excuses.
4. No lies.
5. You have to trust Tyler.

• The goal of the project is the destruction of modern civilization.
• The project consists of five committees: Robbery, Arson, Raids, Disobedience and Disinformation.

- Rules of the “rout” project ^[1]

Once Tyler disappears for a long time and the narrator tries to find him and for this he goes around several cities where he finds other underground clubs in which he is mistaken for Tyler. After talking with Marla, the hero realizes the terrible truth: he and Tyler are one person. Tyler is the hero’s alter-ego, which several times prevailed over him and did not realize what he was doing (he blew up his apartment and fought with himself in the parking lot behind the bar).

Soon the hero begins to frighten the organization’s activities, especially after Bob, a storyteller’s friend, whom he met while visiting a support group, dies during one of the organization’s operations, and the hero decides to finally end the organization.

Tyler suddenly appears and confirms the hero's guesses. The hero’s alter ego plans to blow up a skyscraper using makeshift bombs created by the Smash project; however, the actual purpose of the explosion is the nearby national museum. Tyler plans to die as a martyr during the attack, killing the Storyteller as well. Unaware that Tyler is part of his mind, the hero tries to stop him from committing a terrorist attack. After a while, he falls into unconsciousness, and when he comes to, he sees that he is surrounded by his own pupils. Tyler appears here, and after a short conversation, the hero realizes that the only way to stop him is to kill himself. The hero directs the gun into his mouth and shoots.

The hero did not die, and ended up in a mental hospital. Without realizing this, the hero is sure that he died and went to heaven. He meets with God (who is described as the head physician), and also finds out that the attack did not succeed. At some point, he sees several organization militants who perform the functions of servants and cleaners. One of them whispers to the hero that they are waiting for his return.

• Narrator ( Eng. Narrator ) - the protagonist of the novel. He works as an insurance benefit consultant for a car manufacturing company. Suffers from insomnia , struggles with it, visiting support groups for patients with various diseases. Nowhere in the novel is his real name mentioned. Some readers call him “Joe” because he constantly uses this name in some of his phrases, such as “I am Joe's boiling point” or “I am Joe's complete equanimity.” The hero read similar phrases in the old issues of the Readers Digest magazine, where human organs write about themselves in the first person, for example, “I am Joe’s liver.” In the movie "Joe" is changed to "Jack", as a result of which some fans call the hero "Jack". In the novel and film, he uses pseudonyms while attending support groups. The Storyteller's subconscious needs freedom, he feels that he is locked in his own body, so when Tyler Dörden appears, he is endowed with all those qualities that he lacked: “I like a lot in Tyler Dörden. His courage and ingenuity. His exposure. Tyler is funny, charming, strong and independent. People believe him, believe that he will change the world for the better. Tyler is free and independent. But I do not ” ^[1] .
• Tyler Durden is a charismatic young man who developed a very strange, nihilistic , neo-luddistic and anarcho-primitive philosophical system. He works as a mechanic in a cinema, where he glues pornography shots into family films, as a waiter at receptions, where he harms clients, for example, by urinating in food, and also cooks high-quality soap made from human fat for sale, which he steals from liposuction clinics. He has many unusual knowledge, for example, he knows how to make explosives, napalm or nerve gas. Lives in an empty house, at 5123 NE Paper street. He is a co-founder of a fighting club, since it was precisely the fight with the Storyteller, provoked by him, that led to the idea of ​​creating the club. Later, he created the “rout” project, in which, together with other participants, he commits armed assaults and terrorist acts. Tyler is a blond (“he, as always, is beautiful with the beauty of a blond angel” ^[1] ). He later becomes an antagonist of the novel.
• Marla Singer is a woman who attends support groups with the Storyteller. The latter ceases to receive the desired therapeutic effect from visits to support groups, as he learns that Marla is falsifying her health problems, like himself. After the Storyteller stops visiting groups, he meets her again when she becomes Tyler's lover. Marla is extremely unpleasant and inattentive, as well as prone to suicide , although from time to time she shows her softer and more caring side. Suspects breast cancer. Earn money by stealing things from laundries and selling them to a buyer. Lives at the Regent Hotel.
• Robert "Big Bob" Paulson ( English "Robert" Bob Paulson ) - together with the Narrator goes to support groups for patients with testicular cancer. The formerly three times married bodybuilder is a millionaire, in the novel, due to taking hormonal drugs and removing the testes, he is a fat man. His figure changed in female type, and his voice became higher and softer. Subsequently, he entered the “fight club”. The narrator provides support to Bob, and after stopping visits to support groups, he meets him at a fight club. Bob died during the execution of the next operation of the project "rout".
• Mr. Angel ( born Angel Face ) is a young man who joins a fight club. He is the first to join the rout “The rout” and is very loyal to him, vandalism makes him smile. He likes when his crimes get into the roundup. It possesses, as it is supposed, a beautiful (angelic) face - hence his nickname: from the original language it can be translated as "angelic face" or "face of an angel." The handsome blond is beaten by the Storyteller during one of the fights at the club, after which the Storyteller declares that he "wanted to destroy something beautiful."
• The Storyteller Chief is the immediate supervisor of the Storyteller at a car company. The Storyteller even likes him a little, but Tyler doesn't like him at all. Therefore, Tyler killed him in his own office, pouring a homemade napalm into the tube of his computer monitor, as a result of which the computer exploded.

Creation History

Palanic was inspired to write a novel by a fight in which he participated during a trip to a summer camp ^[2] . Despite the fact that he had bruises and bruises, his colleagues chose not to ask what happened to him on the trip. It was their unwillingness to know what happened that inspired the writer to write the novel Fight Club.

Palahniuk first tried to release the novel Invisible , but the publisher did not agree to publish it, considering it too outrageous. Therefore, the writer concentrated on writing the Fight Club, trying to make it even more outrageous in spite of the publisher. Initially, Fight Club was published as a seven-page story in the Pursuit of Happiness collection, but later Palanik expanded it to a full-fledged novel (in which the original short story became the sixth chapter) ^[3] .

The Fight Club was reissued in 1999 and 2004. The latest issue included an introduction by the author about the success of the novel itself and its adaptation. The author explained the success as follows: “Bookstores were filled with books such as the Club of Joy and Good Luck , Divine Secrets of the Sisters I-Z , and Patchwork . All of these novels presented a social model for women. But there were no novels that would introduce a new social model for men. ” He later explained: “In fact, what I wrote was just a slightly updated novel, The Great Gatsby . It was an “apostolic” novel - where the surviving apostle tells the story of his hero. There are two men and a woman. And one man, a hero, dies from a bullet. "

Cultural Influence

The original hardcover Fighter Club edition was well received by critics. In 1999, screenwriters Jim Uls , August Olsen, and co-producers Conor Straight and Aaron Kerry joined director David Fincher to make the film of the same name. The picture failed at the box office ^[4] , but the news of the upcoming release of the film with the participation of actors Brad Pitt and Edward Norton caused a stir in the US book trade, which, together with the book’s small print runs at that time, led to a significant increase in its retail price - the price of publication in hard binding reached $ 75 per copy, and with an autographed writer - $ 105 ^[5] .

In various interviews to the fans' question about where the real fighting club is located, Palahniuk insists that in reality such an organization does not exist. However, he heard about the real fighting clubs that existed before the release of the novel. In the preface of the novel, the author talks about the harm that the Fight Club work brings to society. So, in the book “ More Fantastic than Fiction ”, Palahniuk writes how one young man told the writer what he liked when the waiters spoil the food of visitors in the novel. “ Margaret Thatcher tasted my sperm,” he told Palahniuk. In addition, the rout “The rout” is partly based on the organization Cacophony Society , of which the writer was a member even before the start of his writing career; some events that occurred with Palanik when he entered the organization were also reflected in the novel ^[6] .

The cultural influence of the Fight Club is also expressed in the fact that organizations of American teenagers and computer scientists created their own fighting clubs ^[7] . Такие описанные в романе злые шутки как порча еды в ресторане повторили поклонники Паланика в реальной жизни, о чём писатель написал в своём эссе «Обезьяньи привычки», которое позже вошло в сборник «Фантастичнее вымысла» ^[6] . Другие поклонники наоборот были вдохновлены на прообщественную деятельность; они рассказали Паланику, что после прочтения романа решили вернуться в колледж ^[3] . В 2004 году «Бойцовский клуб» был поставлен на театральной сцене в виде мюзикла усилиями Паланика, Финчера и Трента Резнора ^[8] . Драматическая версия была написана Диланом Йетсом, а поставлена в городах Сиэтл и Шарлотт (Северная Каролина) ^[9] .

Принято считать ^[10] , что ставшее популярным в 2016 году словосочетание « поколение снежинок » происходит от употребления слова «снежинка» в романе:

In two places in the novel, the Storyteller declares that he wants to “wipe himself off with Mona Lisa ”; The mechanic who joins the fight club also once advises him to do this ^[1] . This motive shows the hero’s desire for chaos, which later is clearly expressed in his desire to “destroy something beautiful”. In addition, he once says that “nothing is static, even Mona Lisa is falling apart” ^[1] . A writer at the University of Calgary, Paul Kennett, claims that chaos is the result of the Oedipus complex - the Storyteller, Tyler, and Mechanic hate their fathers ^[11] . This is most pronounced in the scene in which the Mechanic appears:

The mechanic says: "If you are an American male and Christian , then your father is a model of your God. And if you do not know your father, if he died, abandoned you or he is never at home, what can you know about God ? "
...
According to Tyler, if God pays attention to you because you are behaving badly, then it’s still better than if he doesn’t give a damn about you. Perhaps because God's hatred is still better than God's indifference.
If you have a choice - to become an enemy of God or to become a jerk - what will you choose?
According to Tyler Durden, we are God's unwanted children. There is no place left for us in history.
If we do not attract the attention of God, then we have no hope of either an eternal damnation or atonement for sins.
Which is worse: hell or nothing?
We can only be saved if we are caught and punished.
“Burn the Louvre ,” the mechanic repeats, “and rub it with Mona Lisa. So, at least God will know your name.”

- Fight Club, S. 141 ^[1]

Kennett also claims that Tyler wants to use this chaos so that the “unwanted children of God” have some historical significance, even if it ends with “an eternal damnation or atonement” ^[12] . In a figurative sense, this will return their fathers, since an assessment by future generations will replace an assessment by their fathers.

After reading the Readers Digest articles written on behalf of the human organs belonging to a certain Joe, the Storyteller begins to use such formulations to describe his feelings, often replacing the internal organs with the sensory organs and things that surround him in everyday life (“I am Joe’s bloody revenge ").

Cornflower blue color first appears in the novel as the color of the Storyteller's boss tie and is later used as the color symbolizing the boss ^[1] . It is further mentioned that his eyes are the same color. In the official Russian translation of the novel, cornflower blue is translated as blue. The mentioned cornflower blue is the first of multiple uses of this color in subsequent novels by the writer.

Isolationism , aimed at material things and property, is found throughout the novel. Tyler acts as the main catalyst for the destruction of vanity and the search for his inner self. "I ended the thirst for physical power and possessive instinct," Tyler whispers, "because only through self-destruction can I come to power over the spirit."

Most of the novel shows how many men in modern society are dissatisfied with the state of masculinity . The heroes of the novel are distinguished by the fact that many of them were raised and raised by their mothers because their fathers either abandoned their family or divorced. As a result, the heroes see themselves as “a generation of men raised by women” ^[1] . In their life there is not enough male education to form their masculinity. This combines with the theme of consumer society, as men in the novel see their “instinct for investing in IKEA ” as another step towards feminizing men in a matriarchal culture. The theme of the consumer society, shown in the novel, is very well substantiated by the Storyteller with a craving for shopping for an apartment: “You are buying furniture. You assure yourself that this is the first and last sofa that you buy in life. Having bought it, you have been calm for a couple of years in the sense that no matter how things go, the issue with the sofa is at least resolved. Then the tableware question is solved. Bed question. You buy curtains that suit you, and a suitable carpet. And so you became a captive of your cozy nest, and things that you once were the master of become your masters ” ^[1] .

Professor Jesse Cavadlo, of the University of Mariville in St. Louis , in the publication of the literary magazine Stirrings Still, argued that the Storyteller’s rejection of the tendency to weaken men is only a way to stand out, and the problem he is struggling with is his own ^[13] . He also claims that Palahniuk uses existentialism in the novel to hide the subtexts of feminism and romance in order to convey this concept in the novel, which is mainly aimed at the male audience ^[14] . Palahniuk much easier describes the theme of the novel, stating that “all my books are about a lonely person who is looking for someone to hang on to” ^[15] .

Paul Kennett claims that the Storyteller’s brawl with Tyler, which is a fight with oneself and taking place in the hotel right in front of the boss, are ways to assert oneself as one’s own boss. Kennett argues that these fights embody the difficulties experienced by the proletariat in the hands of a superior capitalist power, and, asserting itself in the ability to create the same power, the hero thus becomes his own owner. Later, when the fighting club is already formed, all participants dress and look the same, they are allowed to symbolically fight with each other and gain the same power ^[16] .

Kennett says that Tyler yearns for the patriarchal power that seized his thoughts and creates the project “Defeat” to achieve this power ^[17] . Using the leadership status of this project, Tyler uses his power to become the “God / Father” for the “monkey astronauts,” who are other members of the Smash project (although by the end of the novel he speaks more than he does because of the threat “ monkey-astronauts "castrate the Storyteller when he stands up against Tyler). According to Kennett, this contradicts the idea put forward by Tyler that men who want to become free from fatherly control will be able to realize this when they become fathers ^[18] . This new structure ends with the Storyteller eliminating Tyler, allowing himself to determine his freedom.

The “paper street” on which Tyler Dorden’s house is located is a pun , as the term “paper street” means the street shown on the map but not actually existing. Johannes Hell argues that Palanic’s use of Narrator’s somnambulism is a simple attempt to highlight the dangerous, yet bold, possibilities of life. Hell insists on the importance of sleepwalking and the significant loss of the Storyteller, as they have a lasting effect on the experiences of readers ^[19] . From the opposite point of view, this is, in a way, a consolation for everyone who suffers to some extent sleepwalking, as this shows them that everything can be much worse ^[19] .

Amazon.com 's Bob Michaels compares Palanic’s novel to books by James Ballard , such as Cocaine Nights and Car Crash . The critic finds the similarity between these books in that they see safe everyday life as a barely holding lid on the boiling cauldron of the underworld and human cruelty. But if the characters of Ballard simply enjoy the organization of car crashes, then the heroes of Palahniuk organize bloody battles and sell soap in order to finance the anarchy and destruction of the world. The authors use the same ingredients, but cook at different temperatures. If the Briton remains indifferent to his heroes, detaches himself from them, analyzes, but excludes any possibility of relating himself to them, then Palanik is unhappy if he is not in the center of the novel, completely merging into a single whole with his heroes ^[20] .

Thomas Gaigan from Booklist Online sees Fight Club as a whole world, a sophisticated world that has nothing to do with the world we are familiar with. Here, according to the critic, young people can find warmth and support only in support groups for the terminally ill, after which they gather in the basement, where they can fight strangers for now. This is a world where nobody cares whether he is alive or already dead. Gaigan compares the effect produced by Palanic's first novel with how each generation scares and shockes his parents. The author claims that Fight Club is a gloomy and disturbing book that tunes in to a new generation and is likely to terrify parents of teenagers. In general, the critic considers the novel to be very strong for the first experience in the career of a writer ^[21] .

The publication Kirkus Reviews described the book as follows: “The brutal and ruthless debut novel Palanika raises the chic of anarchy to a whole new level. A shivering, confrontational novel that is also cynical-smart and written in an aggressive style. This brilliant piece of nihilism succeeds where most transgressive novels get lost. ” ^[22] The author of the review on the Barnes & Noble website wrote: “The outrageous, darkly comic first novel by Chuck Palahniuk is a tough reminder that each of us has a particle that can play the apocalypse” ^[23] .

On the pages of the magazine Publishers Weekly , the novel is not recommended for the faint of heart, as it contains a description of making soap from human fat, spoiling food by waiters in restaurants and creating an organization whose goal is to establish anarchy on earth. In this regard, the author of the article calls the novel apocalyptic . He also considers Palanic a dangerous author, ready to take risks, including harsh irony in the novel, especially bizarre plot twists, causticity, outrage, risking thereby insulting everyone you can. According to the critic, this strong, disturbing and unusually original work of the writer will force even the most fed-up reader to sit and read ^[24] .

A voluminous review of the novel by critic Greg Burkman from The Seattle Times argues that Fight Club is an amazing debut that destroys the 1980s misconception about the ease and comfort of a corporate lifestyle. In general, the novel is characterized as "a gloomy, anxious and unnerving satire on a white-collar society." Burkman is surprised by the deadly seriousness with which the novel insists on the possibility of an anarchist national nightmare. The critic believes that Palahniuk sees a threat in the very heart of corporate America ^[25] .

Literary critic Lev Danilkin wrote a review of the novel for the Afisha magazine. When asked about which is better, a book or a film, Danilkin answers that you must read the novel first. Moreover, the critic believes that it should be in the library of every man, for someday, come in handy, like the Bible of a man. The author of the review article compares the novel with a saber attack and star troopers, saying that it was written specifically for men - this stands out among the vast majority of books aimed at a female audience. According to Danilkin, “the novel created a new social image for men with an appeal to exterminate the glamorous man, a sailor from toilet water advertising” ^[26] .

Roman received the following awards:

• 1997 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award ^[27]
• 1997 Oregon Book Award for Best Romance

The first American edition of the hardback novel was released by WW Norton & Company in New York in August 1996. In 2005, it was reprinted in paperback with the same cover. For the first time in softcover, the book was published in 1997 by the publishing house “ Owl Books ”, was reprinted twice in 1999 (with a cover from the film) and in 2004 (with a new introduction by the author). In addition, in 1999 Tandem Books published a publication for schools and libraries. Also, the novel was released twice in the form of audio books in 1999 and 2008.

In Russia, the book is published by AST . The book was first released in hardcover in 2002, and then reprinted four more times between 2003 and 2010. The first softcover edition was born in 2006, after which it was reissued three more times from 2008 to 2010. In addition, in 2008 the book came out from the Vladimir publishing company VKT. Twice came out in the form of audio books: in 2006 from the company “Audio Studio Metropolia” (text read by Denis Zemtsov) and in 2011 from the company “ Astrel ” (text read by Simon Mendelssohn). The official translation of the books published by the AST publishing house was made by Ilya Kormiltsev .

In 2013, at the Comic-Con festival, Chuck Palahniuk announced work on a sequel to the Fight Club, which will be released in the form of a graphic novel . On his official fan site, Palahniuk announced:

Most likely, this will be a series of books that continues the story 10 years after the apparent death of Tyler Durden. Tyler now tells the story, hiding inside Jack, ready to come back. Jack doesn't notice anything. Marla is bored. Their love boat is breaking on the reefs of philistine melancholy. And only when Tyler abducts their son, Jack has to return to the old world of chaos.

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It will likely be a series of books that update the story ten years after the seeming end of Tyler Durden. Nowadays, Tyler is telling the story, lurking inside Jack, and ready to launch a come-back. Jack is oblivious. Marla is bored. Their marriage has run aground on the rocky coastline of middle-aged suburban boredom. It's only when their little boy disappears, kidnapped by Tyler, that Jack is dragged back into the world of Mayhem.

- Los Angeles Times ^[28]

• Fight Club (film)
• 1996 in literature
• Multiple personality

Comments

1. ↑ In the novel, the club name is written in lowercase; with the initial capital letters, only the name of the book is written. In this article, “Fight Club” means the name of the club, and “Fight Club” the name of the novel.
2. ↑ The first two rules of both the fighting club and the “rout” project in the original language sound exactly the same for emphasis on this rule, for greater expressiveness. Translated into Russian in the second rule, the word "never" appeared. Fans of the novel and the film turned the first two rules into a meme , which then turned into a popular expression (it was slightly changed to “You do not talk about fight club”), which was based on an option from the film )
3. ↑ Shortly after the third rule was introduced, it was removed from the list, as a result of which the other rules were shifted one number up in the list. This rule is mentioned by the Storyteller for the first time when he formulates the rules, but Tyler does not mention him when he announces the list of rules. Tyler also adds an eighth rule, which becomes seventh in his version of the rules. Perhaps this situation was simply due to a mistake, although it is also possible that Tyler changed the rules to allow the Narrator to break the third rule during the course of the novel. According to another version, the reason for this was that the first version of the rules is easier for the fighters than the corrected one, which was invented by the more aggressive Tyler in order to influence the Narrator more strongly.
4. ↑ Later in the novel, a mechanic tells the Storyteller about two new rules for a fighting club: no one can be in the center of a fighting club with the exception of two fighters; fight club will always be free.

Sources

Literature

• "Fight Club" on the site «WW Norton & Company» the first publisher (Eng.)
• Roman Books on the Google (Eng.)
• Book on the official website of the writer (Eng.)