Author: Ken Kesey Ken Kesey
Language: English
Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
Binding: paperback
Pages: 320
In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the nurses in the psychiatric hospital ruled the patients with rigorous methods, cold equipment and cold heart, trying to transform them into supple, regular, and uncharacteristic machines. Until the unrestrained McMurphy entered the asylum. Among the patients, the Indian Bromden knew the power of the system. Even though McMurphy seemed to be winning step by step, Bromden knew that more severe suppression was waiting for them. When McMurphy was taken out of the operating room and turned into an empty plastic doll, the timid and silent Indian broke the window and escaped the asylum.
You can choose to obey and get released;
You can also keep your bones, but stay in the ward.
Madness and civilization, slavery and freedom,
The "spiritual Bible" of the Beat Generation, the birthplace and witness of the hippie era.
Film of the same name wins five awards at the 48th Academy Awards
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was actually a microcosm of American society at the time, and Time magazine called the book "an outraged protest against decent class society stereotypes and the invisible rulers who support them ". The New Yorker said the book "forecasts university riots, anti-Vietnam war, drug use, and anti-cultural movements."
Ken Kesey, a famous American writer. Born in 1935 and died of liver cancer in 2001. While studying for a writing degree at Stanford University in 1959, he volunteered for a government drug experiment in a hospital and published a novel based on this experience, Flying Over the Asylum, which made him famous. He is known as the breeder and witness of the hippie era, a serious novelist who can be compared with Philip Rose and Joseph Heller. He also played a minor role in Hollywood films. He taught at the University of Oregon in 1990 until his death. Just as Ginsberg, the "lost generation" guru, died in 1997, the void left by Ken Kersey's death is no one to fill.