Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel — about a nameless narrator who creates an underground fight club and destructive anti-consumer cult with the charismatic Tyler Durden — the definitive post-consumerist male identity novel.
Creates the definitive critique of consumer masculinity — Fight Club's argument (that consumer culture has created purposeless, identity-less men who seek meaning through violence and destruction) is the most visceral exploration of male identity crisis; its cultural influence exceeds its literary merit through the Fincher film's aesthetic.
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