Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The book follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. The insomnia is aggravated by frequent business travel and an apparent boredom with his comfortable lifestyle. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, he impersonates a seriously ill person in order to participate in several support groups. He and another (female) impersonator - Marla - discover each other and form an uneasy truce. Disturbed into insomnia again by Marla, he happens to meet a mysterious anarchist named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy.[1]
In 1999, director David Fincher adapted the novel into a film of the same name, which after a positive critical response but lower than expected box-office results, acquired a cult following. The film's notoriety heightened the profile of the novel and that of its author, Chuck Palahniuk.
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