One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
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Author: Ken KeseyContributor: Robert Faggen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-31
ISBN: 0141181222
Number of pages: 312
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: One of the best novels of the 20th century. One for the ages.
Summary: 5 Stars
People sometimes pity Kesey for having been a one-hit-wonder. This first book of his is a masterpiece. And the rest? Basically forgettable. I labored through Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics) and began Sailor Song, but neither really worked for me. But this book is a real work of art--a sensational creation from start to finish. It is undoubtedly one of the best novels of the 20th century. The characters are memorable, the world is vivid, the themes are elegant. Kesey evokes a great struggle between freedom and bureaucracy, between the individual and dogma. You might expect that the treatment is obvious or heavy-handed, but there it is done with skill and care. (And, if anything, it softens the often scandalous treatment of the institutionalized mentally ill.)
But there is more: there is Kesey's fantastic penetration of madness itself. He peels back the rational mind that keeps most of us sane and gently lowers us into the confusion of schizophrenia. The powerful interplay of characters, the surprising endings, and the moral struggles give this novel strong engines which carry the reader through the story and continue to motor in the mind, long after the book has been put down.
Summary of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
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.With a Preface and Illustrations by the author
Introduction by Robert Faggan
Kesey, Ken Books
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