After all, it’s the skill in the writing that gives all those concepts and ideas such impact. The ideas in the book are all so fist-in-your-face, I didn’t pause to think about whether I should open the discussion on the Reading Group last week by asking about Fight Club’s politics - it just felt right.īut now, I’d like to redress the balance. The ideas and politics in Fight Club are so overwhelming, it is hard to focus on it simply as a piece of writing. It took a while for Fight Club to go big: when it came out, it was the debut novel from an unknown writer with an initial print run of 10,000 copies (which took years to sell). It’s also possibly because there weren’t that many critical reviews in the first place. This is partly thanks to the fact that it came out in 1996, just before the internet started preserving book reviews for posterity. What I haven’t seen is much discussion of the book as a work of art. I’ve also seen lots of political opinion purportedly built from the book, on the likes of the websites that mentioned in last week’s Reading Group article. I’ve seen dozens of articles about real life Fight Clubs, about “constructs of masculinity”, patriarchal power, and similar.
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