Chuck Palahniuk. "Guts"

The prose of Chuck Palahniuk is distinguished by its original artistic style. A vivid example is the novel "Ghosts". In addition to the main storyline, this work includes a kind of confession of heroes. Their feature is a provocative style, thanks to which in 2005 the most original author was Palanik. "Guts" is one of the stories that have been included in the novel.

Ghosts

Unconventional plot and rather crude style of writing - the features that Palanik gave his novel. "Guts", the description of which is presented below, is a story-confession of one of the characters. But before proceeding to the presentation of this small, but unusual, and even somewhat shocking work, it is worth outlining briefly the content of the novel "Ghosts."

In this work we are talking about a group of seventeen people. Each participant takes a tempting at first glance suggestion: he must spend three months in complete isolation, and during this time create an unrivaled masterpiece. How much this plan can be implemented is not so important. Each of the heroes of the novel writes a story from his previous life. It is the content of these small stories that created the author's reputation as the most original writer.

What is one of the shocking stories that Palanik created?

"Guts": a summary

This story is the first in the book "Ghosts." It is dedicated to adolescent masturbation. The author of this confession tells about what happened to him at the age of thirteen, and completely changed his life. Creating the story of a man who was once an extremely vicious teenager, resorts to an extremely detailed description of Palanik. "Guts" is a small work whose name is directly related to the incident, which not only affected the fate of the teenager, but also changed his way of life.

It is not easy to retell the works created by Palanik. "Guts" - this is perhaps the most difficult to perceive the story. Its author once invented an extremely original way of achieving orgasm. He consisted of a number of actions that should be followed at the bottom of the basin. But the design of an artificial reservoir is such that it is not safe to stay in it, besides being close to a filter with a pump for pumping out water. The hero of the story, written by the most amazing modern writer Chuck Palanik, ignored this rule.

"Guts" is a work that not everyone can read. After all, it refers to a terrible accident, the consequences of which are described to the smallest detail.

Six inches

As a result of the accident, the teenager lost most of the rectum. While the hero of this strange story is fighting the pump, he does not forget about his parents. What if they come home early and see their son, not only in a traumatic state, but also in a position that clearly points to vicious predilections?

Whether the parents have solved the secrets or not, it is unknown. Because now in their family there are problems and more terrible. The money that was put aside for college education had to be spent on a complex operation, after which the teen's rectum is only six inches.

Another life

The hero of the story did not receive a football scholarship and did not become a master. He is often told that he is too thin. At the age of thirteen, he did not score a foot. When he is invited to dinner, he refuses the roast, because his intestines can not digest these dishes.

After the unfortunate was taken to the hospital, his father called a plumber. The pool was dismantled. Father persistently repeated that everything happened because of the dog. The dog allegedly was unattended, fell into the pool, after which his body got into the pump. Even after the plumber extracted a part of his son's internal organ from the filter, his father still persevered in talking about the dog, which he had better watch.

This amazing story is dedicated to one of the most bizarre and frightening stories that Chuck Palanik wrote.

"Guts": description, features

The fact that Palanika's prose is not for everyone, can not be said. His style, a characteristic feature of which are naturalistic details, casts a shock on the unprepared reader.

The story, which is covered in this article, does not begin with a description of the soul-searching adventure in the basin. He is preceded by two small stories from the life of the friends of the author of the tragic confession. Of course, these memories are also associated with the desire to satisfy lascivious desires. True, friends were more fortunate. None of them lost either the rectum or part of another organ. They lead a full-fledged way of life. They do not have to give up meat dishes, and they are quite successfully gaining weight. But only "invisible carrots" from time to time deprive them of peace of mind. What exactly bothers them can be learned only by reading the full contents of the story "Guts".