![]() In particular, Lullaby: A Novel ( 2002) posits an ancient African "culling song" that spreads through the American populace and causes mass infant deaths (see Basilisks). Much of Palahniuk's work in the first decade of the twenty-first century dealt with Horror and Taboos, with occasional glimpses of sf inspiration. Although its hints of a Near Future setting do not quite make it sf, its protagonist espouses the destruction of Western civilization, presented in the film adaptation Fight Club ( 1999), directed by David Fincher, as an idealistic vision of the future seemingly inspired by Survivalist Fiction. ![]() A graduate from the University of Oregon School of Journalism, Palahniuk found success with Fight Club: A Novel ( 1996), one of several works lampooning Religion and cults. ![]() ![]() Working name of Charles Michael Palahniuk (1962- ), US author of transgressive fiction and Satire, some of whose works apply genre devices disruptive to the mundane modern world in which they are ostensibly set (see Equipoise). ![]()
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