THE PROBLEMATICS OF PALAHNIUK’S NOVEL “SURVIVOR” IN RELATION TO NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT

Abstract

Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer of Ukrainian descent and one of the most prominent representatives of transgressive fiction. Palahniuk appeared in the literary context back in the 90s of the past century and became wildly popular among readers, particularly of the younger generation. In the last decade, his oeuvre has fallen into the scope of interests of academic literary criticism which examines the writer’s texts from the intertextual perspective. The philosophical and psychological content of “Fight Club”, the most famous novel by the writer, was reflected in various novels by both American and Russian authors.
In this paper certain theses of “Survivor”, Palahniuk’s third novel, are unfolded in relation to “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche.