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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.

A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the most electrifying, most admired novels of our time. Set in the bleak confines of a state mental hospital and narrated by a half-Indian patient named Chief Bromden, it's the story of a titanic battle of wills between two unforgettable characters.

Devenu un classique contemporain, le roman de Ken Kesey, paru en 1962, n'a rien perdu de sa puissance. Il plonge dans le chaos d'un hôpital psychiatrique où l'infirmière en chef Ratched règne en maître sur son service. Jusqu'à l'arrivée de McMurphy, un criminel qui simule la folie pour échapper à la prison. Rebelle et gouailleur, bien décidé à redistribuer les cartes et à redonner un peu de dignité et d'espoir aux malades, il engage alors à ses risques et périls une résistance acharnée contre l'institution.

Es gibt Romane, die vor allem über ihre Verfilmungen bekannt wurden, und bei manchen davon ist das ein bisschen schade. EINER FLOG ÜBERS KUCKUCKSNEST von Ken Kesey ist so ein Roman, bei dem man, kennt man nur den natürlich großartigen Film mit Jack Nicholson in der Hauptrolle, immer noch eine Menge verpasst hat, vor allem das Innenleben der Hauptfigur, denn die ist im Roman eben nicht der quirlige, starke, redselige, von Jack Nicholson gespielte McMurphy, sondern der große, schweigende Indianer "Häuptling" Bromden, der sich im Laufe des Romans durch einen dichten, psychotischen Nebel in die Freiheit kämpft.

Straordinario, memorabile romanzo, Qualcuno volò sul nido del cuculo è la storia della ribellione contro un ordine malefico e implacabile capace di creare...