Chuck palahniuk adjustment day6/7/2023 His 16th novel begins with war imminent in the Middle East and a compulsory draft about to be introduced. Palahniuk's depiction of modern men may be short on nuance but, like many satirists, his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his books a crackling energy that is some compensation for their lack of subtlety. But if you want to know how he views himself – if you want to read the sort of novel that he might write, with himself as the hero – then Chuck Palahniuk is your man.įrom his first book, Fight Club (1996), Palahniuk has spoken up for the beleaguered American male: the guy who feels that his masculinity is compromised in our feminised, risk-averse world, and that his well-being is ignored by politicians in thrall to political correctness, and so has been humiliatingly forced to adopt the victim mentality he despises in women and minorities. If you want to know what an ordinary white American man is like, you can read, say, John Updike's novels about Harry Angstrom.
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