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Fight Club: As a Novel and As a Film
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Clandestine literature –also called underground literature– is a recent field of literature which is often remembered with its usage of harsh, unusual and critical language towards capitalist system. Fight Club, one of the best known representatives of the clandestine literature, is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk which tells the story of a middle-aged insomniac man. This middle-aged man, who works as a recall specialist for the automobile industry, strives to recover from insomnia in vain and ends up creating a fight club. David Fincher’s highly controversial adaptation of Fight Club into a movie got a lot of public attention when it was released in 1999; however, the movie didn’t …show more content…

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