Fight Club is a text which attempts to depict issues of masculine identity in a capitalist consumer society where the class/wealth hierarchy is extremely divided and unequal. The narrator, unnamed in the novel, experiences a ‘rebirth’ in masculinity caused by the manifestation of Tyler Durden, a personality that embodies the narrator’s subconscious desire for essentialist notions of a masculine identity. The ‘body’ has strong significance throughout Fight Club, and is portrayed as a site of both power and resistance through the mode of destruction.

Reviewed by Geoffrey Abdallah

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