Sob o signo de Janus: uma análise de Clube da Luta em suas relações com a ficção distópica

Abstract

From the perspective of the field of Utopian Studies, the present work aims to analyse the novel Fight Club (1996), by Chuck Palahniuk — and, in a subsidiary way, its homonymic film adaptation (1999), by David Fincher —, in order to enable a reading of this work as a dystopian fiction. Regarding the stylistic and thematic details of Palahniuk’s and Fincher’s narratives — such as the double, the point of view, the irony —, and through them, I seek to demonstrate how some aspects in Fight Club echo recurring dystopian narrative strategies, while others lean towards a reconfiguration of these very strategies. Based on this, and accompanying the analysis, I propose a reflection on the dystopia as a literary genre, in order to establish a different way of reading that includes works that, although dystopian, are not quite similar to the classic twentieth-century dystopias.