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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, that perhaps gained more exposure through the film adaptation, is narrated by a character whose name is never revealed but who is often referred to in critiques and reviews as Joe, a reference to the character's discovery of an old Reader's Digest article in which the bodily organs and functions of various people refer to themselves in the first person. The name ‘Joe' is used in this context throughout the novel to comically articulate the character's mood or mentality, for example on page 59, he says I am Joe's Raging Bile Duct. Joe discovers a cure for his insomnia in various support groups for diseases that he does not have, taking solace in the pain and open suffering of others until he encounters Marla, another ‘tourist' as he describes her, who disrupts his self prescribed ‘therapy'. After his apartment mysteriously explodes while away on business, Joe moves into a dilapidated house with what is later revealed as an alter ego in the form of the......


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