ПИСАТЕЛЬСКИЙ СТИЛЬ ЧАКА ПАЛАНИКА
CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S WRITING STYLE

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to the writing style of Chuck Palahniuk, a modern American author. The writer owes the international acknowledgment to his scandalously famous novel “Fight Club”. He has been named “the king of counterculture” due to the nihilistic themes and motifs used by him. Ch. Palahniuk’s creativity has been often examined in the light of the influence of the romantic tradition; special attention has been paid to the existential problematics, which appears to be the major focus of many of the writer’s novels. Ch. Palahniuk’s most emblematic works, especially his non-fiction book “Stranger than Fiction: True Stories”, as well as the novels “Fight Club” and “Invisible Monsters”, served as the basis for analyzing the author’s creativity in this paper. Ch. Palahniuk’s numerous interviews and the works of a number of American researchers and scholars, who associate Ch. Palahniuk’s creativity with the traditions of the New Journalism, were also considered. The conclusion was made that the technique used by Ch. Palahniuk in most of his works makes it possible to consider them in the light of postmodernism. Minimalism and dynamism are the key features of the writing style of Ch. Palahniuk, which make his works more understandable and attractive to the general public.

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