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"Lot nad kukułczym gniazdem" to jedna z najgłośniejszych i najszerzej w świecie znanych powieści amerykańskich drugiej połowy XX wieku. Ukazuje brutalne dławienie indywidualności na przykładzie zamkniętego zakładu psychiatrycznego, w którym pacjentów odziera się z resztek wolności i godności osobistej. Powieść stanowi wnikliwą analizę psychologiczną szaleństwa zbiorowości.

Książka Keseya wstrząsnęła opinią amerykańską, a przybyły w tym czasie do USA, zrewoltowany przeciw władzy komunistycznej czeski reżyser Milosz Forman nakręcił na jej podstawie film ze słynną kreacją Jacka Nicholsona. Film ten przydał sławy powieści (podobnie jak jej adaptacja teatralna), uwypuklając metaforyczną, antytotalitarną wymowę. W krajach ówczesnego bloku sowieckiego przyjęto go szczególnie żywo, jako czytelną aluzję do sowieckich "psychuszek", w których osadzano i prześladowano opozycjonistów.

Chief Bromden, half American-Indian, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the story of a mental institution ruled by Big Nurse on behalf of the all-powerful Combine. Into this terrifying grey world comes McMurphy, a brawling gambling man, who wages total war on behalf of his cowed fellow-inmates. What follows is at once hilarious and heroic, tragic and ultimately liberating. Since its first publication in 1962, Ken Kesey▓s astonishing first novel has achieved the status of a contemporary classic. ⌠Kesey can be funny, he can be lyrical, he can do dialogue, and he can write a muscular narrative. In fact there's not much better come out of America in the sixties┘ If you haven▓t already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again■═√ Douglas Eadie, ⌠Scotsman■.

Llevado al cine (como ATRAPADO SIN SALIDA en algunos países) por Milos Forman, protagonizada por Jack Nicholson en una de las actuaciones que lo convirtieron en una marca, con Louise Fletcher como la enfermera más repugnante de la historia del cine, y una reflexión temiblemente perdurable sobre las mecánicas del poder.

1975: 5 Oscar: mejor película, director, actor (Jack Nicholson), actriz (Louise Fletcher), guión adaptado / Drama.

Randle McMurphy cumple una larga condena en una granja-prisión y se las ingenia para ser trasladado a una institución psiquiátrica. Una vez allí, avisado por el resto de los pacientes sobre los tiránicos métodos de la enfermera jefe, Randle decide declarar la guerra a la señorita Ratchel. Tras una explosión de cólera de Randle, le aplican un tratamiento de electroshock. Pero para entonces ya se ha ganado a los internos…

El título `Alguien voló sobre el nido del cuco`, es una mala traducción del original en inglés. La frase viene de una rima que recuerda el Jefe Bromden en su estancia en el manicomio. Su abuela decía: `Uno voló hacia el este, uno voló hacia el oeste, y uno voló sobre el nido del cuco`, significando que cada cual es dueño de seguir su destino en diferente dirección que los demás.

From Publishers Weekly

The central theme running through this collection of stories (many of which seem to be primarily nonfiction with elements of fiction thrown in) by the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the struggle to come to terms with the legacy of the 1960s. Kesey draws largely on his own experiences after returning to his Oregon farm following a brief stint in prison on drug charges. A series of tales, apparently sections from a novel in progress, star an alter-ego named Devlin Deboree: his relatively tranquil post-jail farm existence is disturbed both by memories of now-dead companions and the seemingly extinct passions of the '60s, and by burned-out refugees from that era who intermittently arrive on his doorstep, hoping for some sort of help from the most famous survivor of the psychedelic wars. Pieces on visiting Egypt and covering a Chinese marathon examine the complex relationship between Americans and people from other cultures. Kesey's distinctive gift with language and tough sense of humor unify this somewhat disorganized collection, and his elegy for the passing of the mad energy of the '60s will strike a responsive chord with all those who lived through those dangerous, liberating years. 30,000 first printing; BOMC and QPBC alternates.

From Library Journal

Kesey fans have waited long for his latest offering, a collection of experiences, stories, and poetry. Most of the tales concern the life and times of "Devlin E. Deboree," a counterculture author who serves time in Mexico on a narcotics charge and later returns to his family farm in Oregon. Though he gives himself an alias, Kesey usually identifies his friends, including Jack Kerouac, Larry McMurtry, Hunter Thompson, and a Rolling Stone reporter who accompanies him to the great pyramids. The collection fluctuates in mood, ranging from warm "farm" pieces such as "Abdul Ebenezer" (concerning a bull and a cow) to pieces dealing with loss of friends and a common cause that reflect a nostalgia for the Sixties. These more personal pieces, especially the title essay, are particularly strong. Susan Avallone, "Library Journal"

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"Here's good news for pundits and pranksters everywhere: Ken Kesey can still write… Those metaphoric tales illuminate our lives and make us laugh and cry." – San Francisco Chronicle

Ken Kesey: legendary writer, counterculture folk hero – chief trickster of the sixties' tuned-in, turned-on generation. Now, kesey comes to terms with his own legend, as he reveals his fascinating passage from the psychedelic sixties to the contradictory eighties.

Assuming the guise of Devlin Deboree (pronounced debris), Kesey begins with his release from prison and his return to an unusual domestic life; recounts various foreign excursions (to Egypt to visit the Sphinx, and to China to cover the Bejing Marathon); relates lively stories of farm and family and, in the voice of his grandmother, a tall tale and a narrative prayer. Most poignantly, Kesey looks at the hard lessons to be found in the deaths of Neal Cassady and John Lennon.

As always, Kesey challenges public and private demons with sure, subtle strokes – and with the brave and deceptive embrace of the wrestler.

"In these forceful, engaging, sometimes touching pieces, Kesey shows that he remains a concerned, sometimes vitrolic, but ultimately responsible observer of American society and and the human condition." – The Philidelphia Inquirer

O romance de Ken Kesey é inspirado em suas próprias experiências quando participou de pesquisas com drogas psicoativas no centro psiquiátrico do Menlo Park Veterans Hospital (Califórnia). 'Um estranho no ninho' é protagonizado por R. P. McMurphy, um preso que escapa da condenação fingindo-se de louco. McMurphy é então internado em um hospício, sob a tutela da sádica Chefona, a enfermeira Ratched, que comanda os internos com suas rigorosas sessões de terapia e eletrochoque. Aos poucos McMurphy percebe que o hospício pode ser muito pior que a prisão, nesse novo universo cercado de pacientes inseguros, ansiosos e constantemente dopados. Pessoas que buscaram refúgio da sociedade no hospício.