Basada en una novela de Chuck Palahniuk (El club de la lucha), "Asfixia" narra la historia de Victor (Sam Rockwell) que para sufragar el caro tratamiento m?dico en un hospital privado de su madre (Anjelica Huston), se dedica a timar a la gente. Su trabajo diario es representar el papel de un miserable campesino del siglo XVIII en un parque tem?tico de car?cter hist?rico, mientras est? tratando de recuperarse de su adicci?n al sexo.Pero cuando su cada vez m?s d?bil madre insin?a poder revelar la identidad secreta de su ...
Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker.
Error humano es la tercera novela de Chuck Palahniuk, es principalmente una serie de reflexiones, entrevistas y an?cdotas muchas de ellas originadas por el efecto de la pel?cula de “El club de la Lucha ”.Por un lado tenemos una parte en la que Palahniuk reflexiona sobre las necesidades de socializaci?n que tenemos los humanos, ya sea con festivales de sexo o peleas de cosechadoras, en otra nos muestra de qu? forma surgen las historias de sus libros, c?mo se ha inspirado…y hay menos ficci?n de la que uno piensa.Luego tenemos ...
Featuring soap made from human fat, waiters at high-class restaurants who do unmentionable things to soup and an underground organization dedicated to inflicting a violent anarchy upon the land, Palahniuk's apocalyptic first novel is clearly not for the faint of heart. The unnamed (and extremely unreliable) narrator, who makes his living investigating accidents for a car company in order to assess their liability, is combating insomnia and a general sense of anomie by attending a steady series of support-group meetings for the grievously ill, at one of which (testicular cancer) he meets a young woman named Marla. She and ...
Injected with new material and special design elements, Invisible Monsters Remix fulfills Chuck Palahniuk's original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. Laced in are new chapters of memoir and further scenes with the book's characters. Readers will jump between chapters, reread the book to understand the melding of fact and fiction, and decipher the book's playful page design.She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured ...
"I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear." Beleaguered reporter Carl Streator is stuck writing about SIDS and grieving for his dead wife and child; he copes by building perfect model homes and smashing them with a bare foot. But things only get worse: Carl accidentally memorizes an ancient African "culling song" that kills anyone he focuses on while mentally reciting it, until killing "gets to be a bad habit." His only friend, Nash, a creepy necrophiliac coroner, amuses himself with Carl's victims. Salvation of a ...
Главным произведением французского писателя, публициста и критика Эмиля Золя стал цикл из двадцати романов под общим названием «Ругон-Маккары», в которых прослежена история одного семейства в эпоху Второй империи. Он принес Золя мировую известность, а успех одного из романов — «Нана» — носил скандальный характер. Во многих странах он подвергался преследованиям цензуры, а в Дании и Англии даже был запрещен. Главная героиня романа — куртизанка Нана — стала воплощением пороков, падения нравов и чудовищного лицемерия, царивших в обществе.
Pigmeo forma parte de un grupo de terroristas adolescentes enviados a Estados Unidos para cometer un atentado masivo. Camuflado como estudiante de intercambio, el agente 67 deber? convivir con la t?pica familia americana mientras planifica el ataque. Para conseguir su objetivo cuenta con unos conocimientos avanzados de qu?mica y el dominio de las artes marciales. Est? entrenado para detonar un artefacto mort?fero en el momento preciso, si consigue, eso s?, controlar sus inoportunas erecciones…En esta s?tira de doble filo sobre la xenofobia, Chuck Palahniuk retrata el estilo de vida del medio oeste americano y nos cuenta una historia de amor y redenci?n.
Palahniuk's 10th novel (after Snuff) is a potent if cartoonish cultural satire that succeeds despite its stridently confounding prose. A gang of adolescent terrorists trained by an unspecified totalitarian state (the boys and girls are guided by quotations attributed to Marx, Hitler, Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, etc.) infiltrate America as foreign exchange students. Their mission: to bring the nation to its knees through Operation Havoc, an act of mass destruction disguised as a science project. Narrated by skinny 13-year-old Pgymy, the propulsive plot deconstructs American fixtures, among them church (religion propaganda distribution outlet), spelling bees (forced battle to list ...
Author's Note: This book is written in the style of an oral history, a form which requires interviewing a wide variety of witnesses and compiling their testimony. Anytime multiple sources are questioned about a shared experience, it's inevitable for them occasionally to contradict each other. For additional biographies written in this style, please see by George Plimpton, by Jean Stein, and by Brendan Mullen.
"Full of wonderful moments…Palahniuk's voice is so distinctive and intimate-he writes as though he is recounting a great story to a close friend." — Los Angeles Times"Step into Palahniuk's dark worldview and watch for what crawls out. These stories are true to him and no one else." — The Oregonian“One of the oddest and most oddly compelling collections to come along for some time.” —The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“In Chuck Palahniuk’s world, the ride is fast, often disturbing, and there is never any holding back.” —The New Orleans Times-Picayune“Eccentric, idiosyncratic, and often ...
