– Boken som inspirerte klassikerfilmen med Jack Nicholsen er et enestående eksempel på god, moderne litteratur. Den skildrer livet på asylet på en skremmende måte, og beskriver en hverdag som viser hvor feil vi har tatt i fortiden når det gjelder behandling av de sinnsyke, og de "sinnsyke". Bromdens drømmer og fantasier forteller om klaustrofobien hans, og hvor innestengt man kan føle seg. Det er ikke før den lystige McMurphy forandrer synet hans på livet at han innser hvor viktig det er å leve livet på den beste mulige måten, og at han ikke skulle la noen stå i veien for ham. En fantastisk bok som bruker asylet som en metafor for verden, der vi overvåkes og behandles dårlig på daglig basis, og hvor viktig det er å selv bestemme over sin egen skjebne.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen.
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Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen.
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. The subject of an Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.
If you enjoyed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, you might like Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
'A glittering parable of good and evil'
The New York Times Book Review
'A roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the Rulers who enforce them'
Time
'If you haven't already read this book, do so. If you have, read it again'
Scotsman
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780141187884
- Utgivelsesår
- 2005
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm