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Kesey's new introduction to this anniversary edition could very well be the last thing he worked on before shuffling off this mortal coil in 2001. Additionally, 25 sketches he drew while working at a mental institution in the 1950s, the inspiration for the novel, are littered throughout. Critics are divided on the meaning of the book: Is it a tale of good vs. evil, sanity over insanity, or humankind trying to overcome repression amid chaos? Whichever, it is a great read.
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Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results.
With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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What is the world you see when you read this book? It may not be real, but that doesn't make it any less true. Here is a place where feelings become sensations and overpower the "real world". On the face of it, the action takes place in a lunatic asylum. It could just as well be our world. It's populated by a lot of characters that feel more sane than the keepers of the place. The maker of all the rules - the Big Nurse - is the scariest of all, in her confidence that this is entirely her world, run as she likes. Enter Randall Patrick Macmurphy. Rules? What rules? They don't exist as far as he's concerned. This world is just another to be moulded to his liking. Within a minute of his entry, he's run up against the Nurse. Every inmate sees something new about life- it's possible not to follow someone else's rules and live to tell the tale. The Nurse's world cracks up, bit by bit. R.P.Mcmurphy too realizes the extent to which it's possible to fall into the games life creates. This is one character you'll remember forever - and the lesson he preaches. All the inmates - you included - learn that the game is a game only as long as you know you're playing it. Get caught up and you're just a token on the board. Ken Kesey talks through Chief Bromden - an indian who plays at being deaf and dumb in an effort to run from the game. Grammar is an easy prey to the Chief's onrushing thoughts as he struggles to keep up with the speed of events around him. The prose sparkles with electricity as he "sees" his feelings and expresses them as events. Hostility in the air becomes a chill, and the sensation of death is falling into a furnace. This is a book that reads like walking through a "hall of crazy mirrors". You look back on yourself and don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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This is a modern masterpiece, or so I've heard, many times, from various sources. So I gave it EVERY CHANCE in the world. But I have to be honest, I found it an utterly shallow raving about how the "modern matriarchy" [whatever that is] has "cut off men's balls". I read a bunch of reviews that hail this book as subtle and insightful and say that it really challenged stereotypes and drew characters fully and sympathetically. I thought it was quite the opposite. The characters were flat, two-dimensional, and predictable. The rambunctious, "life-loving" hearty male. The repressive, bureaucratic older woman emasculating the poor men in her charge. The sympathies were clear. The "good" characters, even when they raped teenage girls, were simply expressing their zest for life. The bad character was so bad that no one could even "get it up for her".
The only thing "new" was the recognition that the mentally ill were human beings worthy of basic dignity. I'm not even sure that that view was (in 1962) quite as radical as everyone is making it out to be. It was more like a mid-century trend to reconceive deviance.
And please, those of you snapping up to write a knee-jerk response chiding me for "political correctness", desist! All I am saying is that I doubt an author purporting to expose stereotypes serves his work well by resorting to yet more stereotypes with such gusto. Kesey could have made the UNSYMPATHETIC characters more human.
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This is a wonderfully engaging novel told from the perspectiveof a mental patient. Read it!
Now on to the subject I wanted totalk about. There is a customer review by a 6 year old girl (from 1997) telling the story in her own words. I would like to inform anyone who cares that the events the little girl spoke of were not true to the book. They were scenes from the movie with Jack Nicholson. The movie and the book are very similar, but there are very huge differences, one being the fishing trip. The "little girl" told the movie version. In the book version, the patients have permission to go on the trip, and Doctor Spivey accompanies them on the trip...This really is a wonderful novel and I hope everyone will read it AND see the movie to see the differences. The movie is classic, so if you really don't want to read the book, see the movie, but don't play it off like you read the book.
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Eines der wenigen Bücher, wo ich sagen muss, dass der Film besser als die Vorlage war. Wirklich vom Hocker gehauen hat es mich hier nicht, weil es keinen richigen... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 5 Monaten von Frank Bittermann veröffentlicht
One of the best
Undeniably at the top of my list. Randle McMurphy is an example to all who feel trapped "in the fog"
The movie was good, but a lot of the power was in the narration by... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Juli 2000 von Jacob Blair
The Greatest Novel Ever Written!
Kesey grabs you, and puts you up to a horrifying peephole with this book. You see through the eyes of each character, and become addicted to their world. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juni 2000 von Jeremy
a classic
I am a fan of Kesey and his works and this was a great book for a first novel. I got into Kesey because of the Acid Tests (which I found out about through the Grateful Dead) and I... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoos nest
Ladies and gentlemen. If you are looking for some entertainment, but are tired of TV programs and the like: Invest seven dollars in this little masterpiece and you will be... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Mai 2000 von Walter Sobchak
One Flew Over the Cockkoo's Nest
I read this book for a class in school and found it to be incredibly entertaining. I can also a very close relationship these days between the symbolism in this book and how it... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Mai 2000 von "phatturk"
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
This story is made up of skirmishes between McMurphy and Big Nurse. With a series of practical jokes he changes the life of his inmates. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Mai 2000 von R. Razum
chief bullgoose loony
if the reader approaches the book as a literal rendering of a story , the narration is bound to cause him problems.the chief is not consistent with the reality. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Mai 2000 von hiren patel
Mind Freedom
in-san-i-ty: persistent mental disorder or derangement. At first when I read the title of the book, I immediately prejudged that this book would be about insanity and the people... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Mai 2000 von Brian Carmona
funny as hell
nest is a book about a mental institute who welcomes a new patient of unique qualities.he is an irishman who laughs in the face of authority and suffers the consequences without... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. April 2000 von avdr
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