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Ken Kesey

    17 settembre 1935 – 10 novembre 2001

    Ken Kesey ottenne fama mondiale con il suo romanzo Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo . Negli anni '60 divenne un eroe della controcultura e un guru delle droghe psichedeliche. Kesey è descritto come il „ Pifferaio Magico “ che trasformò la beat generation nel movimento hippie. La sua opera scava a fondo nella psiche umana e critica le istituzioni sociali, spesso ispirata dalle sue esperienze personali con sostanze psicoattive e dalla sua vita in contesti psichiatrici. Nella fase successiva della sua carriera, si dedicò anche alla letteratura per l'infanzia e alla prosa sperimentale.

    Ken Kesey
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    Demon Box
    Last Go Round
    Sometimes a Great Notion
    Sailor Song
    Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo
    • Českým čtenářům se již dostala do rukou kniha "Skříňka s démonem", která začíná Keseyho propuštěním z vězení, kde autor v roce 1967 strávil šest měsíců kvůli obvinění z držení marihuany. Během pobytu v kriminále vznikly „Zápisky z lochu“ s podtitulem „Nechte ty k****y běžet“, v nichž se mísí záznamy bizarních snů s ještě bizarnějšími rozhovory mezi vězni, s dopisy ženě, anekdotami a básněmi, a vznikají tak výmluvné portréty spoluvězňů i dozorců. Obraz života vězeňské komunity, "šílenějšího než v pakárně", dotvářejí pestrobarevné koláže. Základem knihy byly poznámkové bloky, které Kesey ve vězení popsal a pokreslil. Při jeho propuštění byly některé ze zápisníků zabaveny a ztratily se, mnohé se ale podařilo zachránit. Po návratu domů Kesey přetvořil náčrtky a zápisky v koláže a uspořádal z nich soubor, který se podařilo vydat až téměř po třiceti letech, kdy dal autor knize její současnou podobu. Deník je nejen uměleckým dílem literárním, ale i výtvarným, a navíc slouží jako sonda do myšlení těch Američanů, kteří se v padesátých a šedesátých letech nechtěli smířit s americkou vnitřní ani zahraniční politikou.

      Zápisky z lochu. Nechte ty k****y běžet2006
      3,7
    • Kesey is the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". Featuring such characters as Buffalo Bill Cody and wrestler Frank "The Crusher" Gotch, this book is both a historical novel and a dime Western. It is set in the tiny town of Pendleton, home of the rodeo showdown.

      Last Go Round1995
      4,1
    • En eentje zag ze vliegen

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Ken Kesey's held is Randle Patrick McMurphy, een onstuimige, vechtlustige rebel die in een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis beland en dit overneemt. Hij trekt de andere patienten aan doordat hij met zijn vechtersnatuur ingaat tegen de dictatuur van verpleegster Ratched. Hij leert ze gokken, smokkelt wijn en vrouwen binnen, en vecht bij elke gelegenheid openlijk de regels aan. Maar wat begint als een spel ontwikkelt zich al snel tot een grimmige strijd, een totale oorlog tussen twee meedogenloze opponenten: zuster Ratched, met volle steun van het gezag, en McMurphy, met enkel zijn eigen ontembare wil. Als zuster Ratched haar ultieme wapen gebruikt tegen McMurphy bereikt het verhaal schokkende climax.

      En eentje zag ze vliegen1994
    • Rodeo

      • 293pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura
      Rodeo1994
    • Sailor Song

      • 550pagine
      • 20 ore di lettura

      Il ritornello era talmente universale e fuori del tempo che avrebbe potuto udirsi, portato da un vento di malinconia, aleggiare in qualsiasi desolato villaggio di pescatori.

      Sailor Song1992
      4,1
    • Demon Box

      • 357pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      In this collection of short stories, Ken Kesey challenges public and private demons with a wrestler's brave and deceptive embrace, making it clear that the energy of madness must live on.

      Demon Box1987
      3,7
    • The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sailor Song is a wild-spirited and hugely powerful tale of an Oregon logging clan. A bitter strike is raging in a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers: Henry, the fiercely vital and overpowering patriarch; Hank, the son who has spent his life trying to live up to his father; and Viv, who fell in love with Hank's exuberant machismo but now finds it wearing thin. And then there is Leland, Henry's bookish younger son, who returns to his family on a mission of vengeance - and finds himself fulfilling it in ways he never imagined. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals, Ken Kesey crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.

      Sometimes a Great Notion1977
      4,3
    • En eentje zag ze vliegen

      One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Contact paperback

      • 287pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this 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 attempts to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine Kesey's galvanizing novel probes the meaning of madness, often turning the conventional notion of sanity on its head, and offers and unforgettable portrait of a man teaching the value of self-reliance and laughter who is destroyed by the forces of hatred and fear.

      En eentje zag ze vliegen1974
      4,4
    • Sometimes a Great Notion

      • 599pagine
      • 21 ore di lettura

      The Stampers, a logging family pit by circumstance against big business, are rough, hard men and women who live by the motto "never give an inch." Added to the turmoil is the return of Leland, a dope-smoking, college educated half brother whose arrival triggers a tidal wave of events that spiral gradually out of control

      Sometimes a Great Notion1964
    • Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo

      • 394pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Miss Ratched governa con pugno di ferro e un soave sorriso il suo reparto, in un ospedale psichiatrico dell'Oregon. All'improvviso arriva McMurphy, un irlandese cocciuto, spavaldo, allegro e ribelle. Fra lui e la Grande Infermiera inizia subito un duello all'ultimo sangue. McMurphy risveglia gli altri pazienti ormai svuotati e avviliti dalle "terapie" e riesce a portare una ventata di umanità e calore. Da questo romanzo è stato tratto l'omonimo film di Milos Forman interpretato da Jack Nicholson, Will Sampson e Danny De Vito.

      Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo1962
      4,6