One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1973, Viking Press)

311 pages

English language

Published Jan. 11, 1973 by Viking Press.

ISBN:
978-0-670-52604-8
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OCLC Number:
1002859

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Like George Orwell and Philip Wylie, Ken Kesey is concerned with man's battle to be himself in a world of increasing controls, the battle of joy and freedom against a society which fosters guilt and shame. His first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, tells the story of a struggle between a man and a woman for the spirits and hearts of a group of people who have been defeated by the world. The setting for these defeated lives is a mental institution. The teller of the story, a half-Indian and a long-time inmate, has made the most complete retreat from life of all of them; he will not talk, and he has fooled the staff into thinking he is deaf and dumb. But through his self-imposed protective fog he is an acute observer. His vision of the life around him seems to have a truth which is beyond …

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Avrò visto il film un paio di volte, finalmente mi sono deciso a leggere il libro. Il punto di vista del Capo Bromden è assolutamente magnifico, il suo percorso di crescita con le avventure di MacMurphy è una storia a tratti divertente, a volte struggente, ma sempre appassionante. Un applauso in particolare alla caratterizzazione dei personaggi, tutti meravigliosamente descritti. Non credevo che mi avrebbe colpito così positivamente. Consigliatissimo a tutti!

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Subjects

  • Psychiatric hospital patients -- United States -- Fiction.
  • Psychiatric nurses -- United States -- Fiction.
  • Mentally ill -- United States -- Fiction.