- Allegories, psychiatric nursing, medical novels, Belletristische Darstellung
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind; including a critique of psychiatry, and a tribute to individualistic principles
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Intimate, prestige, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Ken Kesey
- First published
- May 5, 2005
- Pages
- 311
- Publisher
- Seix Barral, STOCK, Editura Polirom
- Editions
- 103
- Language
- geo, Spanish, Polish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9788306005691
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“The opening scene is constructed to introduce the reader to two major characters, to hint at themes that will be developed later in the book, and to give readers an understanding of how the novel's somewhat unusual narration and point of view work-to let the readers know what they should believe, and what they shouldn't.”
KEN KESEY was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow.
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