The Narrator (Fight Club) The Narrator (Fight Club) The Narrator, also known as Tyler Durden, is a fictional character appearing as both the central protagonist and antagonist of the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel "Fight Club", its 1999 film adaptation of the same name, and the comic book "Fight Club 2". The character has dissociative identity disorder, and is depicted as an unnamed everyman known as the Narrator during the day, while he becomes the chaotic and charismatic Tyler Durden at night during periods of insomnia. In 2008, Tyler was selected by "Empire" magazine as the greatest movie character of all the time. When the
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