Chuck Palahniuk
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I came to "Choke" after reading "Lullaby". The main way to interpret Palahniuk's writing is contradiction and making the myth carnal, tangible, destructible.
The mother, the unknown father, the conquered Americanism, themes already read in Fante, and the desecration, throughout the beat generation sex is a common denominator as an act of liberation.
One does not seek a woman to create a stable couple, the change of events causes change, in Palahniuk we have a model of a libertarian and free woman, I do not use the term libertine even for the moments when she decides to give herself for money.
Another determining factor, education in the observation of phenomena, drawing a river, creating a map, reality and imagination intersect,
In the narrative, I find Ophelia as an image of the mother, I find Pirandello in the relationship with Peige, the unsuccessful sex because Victor deep down loves that woman, crazy or doctor she may be. Paige is the further paradox, she speaks and acts like a doctor, he himself resorts to similar tricks after two years spent sweating on the benches of the medical faculty, up to the trick of "choking" to make characters in search of an author "heroes".
Another evocation, the colonial scenery, always juxtaposed with the memories of the mother before hospitalization, is a reference to "1984", and the friend Denny is the modern Sisyphus, building nothing and returning it to nothing is his goal.