《窒息》是美国著名“X代”作家查克·帕拉纽克于2001年发表的一部后现代主义小说。它的主要线索是一个中途从医学院退学的年轻人为了支付其母亲在精神病护理院的昂贵费用而在各个上流人士出没的餐厅里假装因食物哽咽而窒息,以博得好心人同情,从而获得经济 Asphyxiation is a postmodern novel published in 2001 by Chuck Parannew, a well-known American “Generation X” writer. Its main clue is that a young man who dropped out of the medical school halfway to pay for his mother’s high cost in a psychiatric nursing home pretended to be suffocated by choking in food at various elite restaurants to gain sympathy for the economy