Ken Kesey
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. Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, CO, and brought up in Eugene, OR. He spent his early years hunting, fishing, swimming; he learned to box and wrestle, and he was a star football player. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he acted in college plays. On graduating he won a scholarship to Stanford University. Kesey soon dropped out, joined the counterculture movement, and began experimenting with drugs. In 1956 he married his school sweetheart, Faye Haxby. Kesey attended a creative writing course taught by the novelist Wallace Stegner. His first work was an unpublished novel, ZOO, about the beatniks of the North Beach community in San Francisco. Tom Wolfe described in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Kesey and his friends, called the Merry Pranksters, as they traveled the country and used various hallucinogens. Their bus, called Furthur, was painted in Day-Glo colors. In California Kesey's friends served LSD-laced Kool-Aid to members of their parties. At a Veterans' Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey was paid as a volunteer experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs and reporting their effects. These experiences as a part-time aide at a psychiatric hospital, LSD sessions - and a vision of an Indian sweeping there the floor - formed the background for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, set in a mental hospital. While writing the work, and continuing in the footsteps of such writers as Thomas De Quincy (Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1821), Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception, 1954), and William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch, 1959), Kesey took peyote. The story is narrated by Chief Bromden. Into his world enters the petty criminal and prankster Randall Patrick McMurphy with his efforts to change the bureaucratic system of the institution, ruled by Nurse Ratched. The film adaptation of the book gained a huge success. When the film won five Academy Awards, Kesey was barely mentioned during the award ceremonies, and he made known his unhappiness with the film. He did not like Jack Nicholson, or the script, and sued the producers. Kesey's next novel, Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), appeared two years later and was also made into a film, this time directed by Paul Newman. The story was set in a logging community and centered on two brothers and their bitter rivalry in the family. After the work, Kesey gave up publishing novels. He formed a band of "Merry Pranksters", set up a commune in La Honda, California, bought an old school bus, and toured America and Mexico with his friends, among them Neal Cassady, Kerouac's travel companion. Dressed in a jester's outfit, Kesey was the chief prankster. In 1965 Kesey was arrested for possession of marijuana. He fled to Mexico, where he faked an unconvincing suicide and then returned to the United States, serving a five-month prison sentence at the San Mateo County Jail. After this tumultuous period he bought farm in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, settled down with his wife to raise their four children, and taught a graduate writing seminar at the University of Oregon. In the early 1970s Kesey returned to writing and published Kesey's Garage Sale (1973). His later works include the children's book Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear(1990) and Sailor Song (1992), a futuristic tale about an Alaskan fishing village and Hollywood film crew. Last Go Around (1994), Kesey's last book, was an account of a famous Oregon rodeo written in the form of pulp fiction. In 2001, Kesey died of complications after surgery for liver cance
29 Books Written
In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, back by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax.--back cover
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest... Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.
Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizens —colorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and Descendants of Early Aboriginal People- are seduced and besieged by a Hollywood crew, come to film the classic children's book The Sea Lion. The ensuing turf war escalates into a struggle for the soul of the town as the novel spins and swirls toward a harrowing climax.Kesey has given us a unique and powerful novel about America, and this epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time.
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.
Out of the mists of Oregon lore, Ken Kesey has summoned a long-remembered story he first heard as a boy from his father around a campfire: the "last go round" at the Pendleton Round-Up in 1911, which pitted three cowboys against each other as they rode for the first world broncbusting crown. Photos.
The 'Sound City Acid Test', originally made in 1965 as The Pranksters' venture into 'the world of The Beatles' is released for the first time on CD. Seventy-four minutes of reading, poetry, music and mayhem from the archives of Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs. Acid Test Vol 1 document their attempt to enact an acid test within the recording studio environment. After its release as a 1000-copy limited-edition LP, it was repeatedly boot-legged. This CD also features 'Vietnam Day 1966' a previously unreleased musical reconstruction (recorded in 1967) of the Pranksters' famous meeting with the Hell's Angels which subsequently launched the career of visiting Prankster, Hunter S. Thompson.
The Merry Pranksters' 1964 voyage aboard Further is probably the best-known adventure of an adventurous decade. Ken Kesey and friends transformed an old yellow school bus into a psychedelic schooner and set off on a coast-to-coast trip. Here is the story of the legendary bus trip, as seen through the eyes of the head Prankster, Ken Kesey. Illustrated.
Kesey's Garage Sale is a collection of essays.
Four years after the legendary 1964 bus trip immortalized in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Ken Kesey began serving time in San Mateo County Jail for pot possession. Transferred to an experimental low-security "honor camp" in the redwood forest, he spent six months clearing brush and immersing himself in the life of the jail community, attempting to "bring light and color" to it. "This is crazier here than the nuthouse ever was," Kesey noted, and proceeded to record the scene in numerous notebooks, illustrated with intense and brilliantly colored artwork. Upon returning to Oregon, Kesey turned the raw notebook material into an illustrated collage that stretched across dozens of 18" x 23" boards. Upon realizing that publication of the elaborate, handwritten book was more than his publisher was willing to attempt, he put it aside. Almost thirty years later he returned to the project and brought it to completion during the final years of his life. Fans of Ken Kesey's singular American voice will rejoice to hear it again in this unique and long-overdue volume. Those unfamiliar with Kesey's artwork are in for a revelation.
The author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and an American Book Award-winning artist relate Tricker's battle to outsmart Big Double, who descends from the mountains one morning to terrorize the creatures of Topple's Bottom. Reprint.
Редко появляются на свет люди, способные хоть немного изменить этот мир, причем изменить в лучшую сторону, сделать его ярче, богаче, полнее и сказочнее. Одним из таких чародеев, весельчаков и забавников был Кен Кизи - психоделический гуру, кумир нескольких поколений, автор одной из главных книг современности. Вашему вниманию предлагаются сразу три его произведения, демонстрирующие все многообразие его творческого спектра, - классические романы "Пролетая над гнездом кукушки" и "Порою блажь великая" (легшие в основу не менее классических фильмов, главные роли в которых исполнили, соответственно, Джек Николсон и Пол Ньюмен), а также сборник рассказов и повестей "Когда явились ангелы".
Редко появляются на свет люди, способные этот свет, этот мир хоть немного изменить, причем изменить в лучшую сторону, сделать его ярче, богаче, полнее и сказочнее. Одним из таких чародеев, весельчаков и забавников был Кен Кизи. Вашему вниманию предлагается два его произведения - "Над кукушкиным гнездом", "Гаражная распродажа".Содержание:Над кукушкиным гнездом(переводчик: Виктор Голышев) Гаражная распродажа Кена Кизи(переводчик: Николай Караев)
Although taunted for his small size and bad leg, Eemook proves his worth by saving his tribe from an evil and powerful spirit that comes visiting one stormy night.
Книга содержит два романа: "Над кукушкиным гнездом" К.Кизи, сюжетный стержень которого составляет бунт героя против тирании, попытки пробудить в больных психиатрической больницы чувство собственного достоинства, и роман У.Стайрона "И поджег этот дом", где на примере судеб двух людей автор раскрывает многие болезненные проблемы Америки середины 50-х годов XX века.
Silný příběh líčí konání rebela McMurphyho – člověka, jenž si dokáže uchovat svou osobitost navzdory tlakům ze strany personálu léčebny a systému. Vedoucí ústavu slečna Ratchedová chce mít všechny chovance poslušné a pod absolutní kontrolou. Randle McMurphy si nenechá nic líbit a hájí svá práva i práva svých přátel v ústavu, na což nakonec bohužel doplatí.
Short story about Otto the Great, (a.k.a. Otto the Bloody) a Germanic king, and his mad behavior on New Year’s Eve at the close of the first millennium... Tells how his pregnant wife died in the debacle, and how he roamed the countryside as a beggar for a time with his boil-inflicted infant son, before returning to his city and keep in the spring, a reformed man...
Als de oude rodeo-rot Jonathan Spain uit Tennessee na vele jaren terugkeert naar het legendarische Pendleton om de 'round up' bij te wonen, herleeft voor zijn ogen het verleden van zijn eerste grote rodeo in 1911. Op weg naar die wedstrijd sloot hij in de trein vriendschap met de grote vedetten: de neger George Fletcher en de indiaan Jackson Sundown. Juist zij bleken in de extra laatste ronde de grootste rivalen te zijn van de zeventienjarige 'Johnny Nashville'. En al wees het lot Johnny aan om het vurigste paard te bedwingen, de afloop van de beslissende 'Go round' zou iedereen verbazen.
Wir befinden uns im Fischerort Kuinak, Alaska, und geografisch wie zeitlich am Ende der Welt. Das Wetter schlägt unerwartet und lebensbedrohlich von einem Extrem ins andere. Der Lachs wird knapp, die Menschen sind gereizt und diverse Weltuntergangspriester verkünden »Diesmal wirklich!«, und überdies scheint sich in Kuinak eine Katastrophe nach der nächsten anzubahnen.Als eine Filmcrew aus Hollywood mit einer gigantischen Luxusyacht im Hafen aufkreuzt und Kuinak in eine Filmkulisse verwandeln will, wird dadurch alles auf den Kopf gestellt. Seitdem scharen sich schrullige Originale und räudige Köter um unsere beiden Helden. Da ist zum einen der abgehalfterte Ökoterrorist Ike Sallas, der sich nach seiner Haft nach Kuinak zurückgezogen hat. Außerdem noch Alice Carmody, eine der letzten Angehörigen vom Stamm der Unternehmerin und Künstlerin mit einem Hang zu cholerischen Anfällen.Infolge der Filmaufnahmen werden Ike und Alice intensiv mit Fragen nach ihrer Identität konfrontiert. Am Ende kämpfen sie um nichts weniger, als um die Hoheit über ihre eigene Geschichte sowie um einen Ort, an dem es sich zu leben lohnt.Mit diesem Roman wirft Kesey Ende der 1980er einen mal psychedelisch und bunten, mal düsteren Blick auf die unruhige See der 2020er-Jahre. Gekonnt lässt Kesey westlich-christliche Erzähltraditionen und archaische indigene Mythen aufeinanderkrachen.Was ist authentisch in einer Welt, in der jede Tradition zum Merchandise verkommt? Was nützt all der Heldenmut, wenn die Welt ohnehin nicht mehr zu retten ist? Und wird Ike Sallas sich auf seine alten Tage noch einmal dazu aufraffen können, es zumindest zu versuchen?
Einer flog übers Kuckucksnest - Erfolgreich verfilmt mit Jack Nicholson - bk1559
by Ken Kesey
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Einer flog übers Kuckucksnest - Erfolgreich verfilmt mit Jack Nicholson - bk1559; 2001 Verlag; Ken Kesey; pocket_book; 1981
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
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by Ken Kesey
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