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37505041. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry [3] and a tribute to individualistic principles. [citation needed] It was adapted into the Broadway (and ...
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68 books2,686 followers. Follow. Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, debut novel by Ken Kesey, first published in 1962. At a Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey had been a paid volunteer and experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs such as LSD and recording their effects, and this experience and his work as an aide at the hospital served as ...
May 5, 2005 · 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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Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as a part of the Beats literary movement, one which rejected conventional social norms and protested the government’s lack of concern for certain neglected categories of society: the insane, the criminal, the homeless, etc. as well as the government’s intervention in The Vietnam War (1955-1975) because of its commitment to abolish communism ...
Oct 31, 2019 · Updated on October 31, 2019. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962 and set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital. The narrative actually serves as a study of the contraposition between society’s repressiveness through its institutions and individualistic principles. In the novel, narrated by the paranoid ...
