Ken Kesey – författare

An international bestseller and the basis for the hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the defining works of the 1960s. In this classic novel, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story’s shocking climax.

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy’s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them all imprisoned.

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.

Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.'A glittering parable of good and evil'The New York Times Book Review'A roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the Rulers who enforce them'Time'If you haven't already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again'Scotsman

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned.

Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. For one offense, the head nurse has him submit to shock treatment. The party is too horrid for her and she forces him to submit to a final correction a frontal lobotomy. Winner of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival. "Cuckoo is captivating." - the New York Post "Scarifying and powerful." - the New York Times

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan.A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank''s exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry''s bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined. Out of the Stamper family''s rivalries and betrayals, Ken Kesey crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked ""The Sixties,"" as iconically recounted in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In the introduction to ""An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey,"" Paul Krassner writes, ""For a man who says he doesn't like to do interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them."" What's most surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of attention. After his two great triumphs, writing played a lesser role in Kesey's life, but in thoughtful interviews he sometimes regrets the books that were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy--the death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered his life. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

Ken Kesey (1935-2001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, Sometimes a Great Notion. His other books, including Demon Box, Sailor Song, and two children's books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked ""The Sixties,"" as iconically recounted in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. In the introduction to ""An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey,"" Paul Krassner writes, ""For a man who says he doesn't like to do interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them."" What's most surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of attention. After his two great triumphs, writing played a lesser role in Kesey's life, but in thoughtful interviews he sometimes regrets the books that were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedy--the death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered his life. These conversations make clear Kesey's central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

"Eine der wichtigsten literarischen Publikationen der Nachkriegszeit." (Norddeutscher Rundfunk)Eines der großen tragikomischen Bücher der Gegenwartsliteratur. Voller Realistik, unglaublichem Humor und Sympathie für die Opfer erzählt der junge Autor Ken Kesey von der ständigen Bevormundung der Insassen einer Heilanstalt. Der Film von Milos Forman mit Jack Nicholson in der Hauptrolle wurde mit fünf "Oscars" ausgezeichnet.

"Veselyj prokaznik" i glashataj novoj real''nosti, Ken Kizi proslavilsya pervym svoim romanom "Nad kukushkinym gnezdom". Vtoroj roman kul''tovogo pisatelya yavilsya ne men''shim sobytiem v mirovoj literature; da chto tam ne men''shim — grandioznym. V oregonskih lesah, na beregu velikoj reki razvorachivayutsya sobytiya, nakal kotoryh sravnim razve chto s drevnegrecheskoj tragediej, a geroi vyrastayut do vsesil''nyh gigantov. Oni zhivut po sobstvennym zakonam, i net takoj sily, kotoraya sposobna ih slomit''. EHta istoriya lyubvi, nepomerno tyazhkoj raboty i bor''by so stihiej oborachivaetsya velichajshej pritchej sovremennosti.Po romanu byl postavlen odnoimennyj fil''m s Polom N''yumenom i Genri Fondoj v glavnyh rolyah, nominirovavshijsya na dve premii "Oskar"; sam zhe N''yumen vystupil vdobavok i rezhisserom.

Poslednij roman Kena Kizi, psihodelicheskogo guru i avtora odnoj iz znakovyh knig XX veka, "Nad kukushkinym gnezdom"! V perevode vydayushchegosya mastera Viktora Golysheva, kotoromu my i obyazany "Kukushkoj"!EHto zahvatyvayushchee proizvedenie osnovano na real''nyh sobytiyah 1911 goda, kogda v oregonskom gorodke Pendlton prohodil Pervyj chempionat mira po rodeo, stavshij s tekh por ezhegodnym. Itak: "Tri bessmertnyh vsadnika mayachat na severo-zapadnom gorizonte — dalekie, tumannye, osveshchennye szadi stol''kimi bylyami i nebylicami, chto ih teni kazhutsya bolee veshchestvennymi, chem ih siluehty". No lish'' odnomu iz nih dostanetsya inkrustirovannoe serebrom prizovoe sedlo, lish'' odnomu — lyubov'' korolevy rodeo, lish'' odnomu suzhdeno vojti v istoriyu.

Ken Kizi — avtor odnoj iz naibolee znakovyh knig XX veka "Nad kukushkinym gnezdom" i psihodelicheskij guru. "Kogda yavilis'' angely" — eto svoego roda dnevnik puteshestviya iz patriarhal''noj glubinki k manyashchim ognyam megapolisa i obratno, eto kvintessenciya razmyshlenij o strahe smerti i haosa, presledovavshem chelovechestvo vo vse vremena i olicetvorennom zloveshchim prizrakom entropii, eto ispoved'' cheloveka, proshedshego skvoz'' psihodelicheskij ekstaz i nablyudayushchego razocharovanie v buntarskih idealah 60-h.