书名：One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest飞越疯人院

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数1040L
作者：Ken Kesey肯·克西
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2005
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141187884
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：320
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疯癫与文明，奴役与自由，
垮掉一代的“精神”，嬉皮时代的催生者和见证人。
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest《飞越疯人院》实际上是当时美国社会的一幅缩影，《时代》周刊称此书“是向体面阶级社会的陈规以及支持这些陈规的看不见的统治者发出的愤怒抗议”。《纽约客》则说此书“预示了大学骚乱、反越战、吸毒以及反文化运动”。

媒体
“我看见我这一代的精英被疯狂毁灭。”——《嚎叫》，艾伦金斯堡
“《飞越疯人院》是向体面阶级社会的陈规以及支持这些陈规的看不见的统治者发出的愤怒抗议。”——《纽约时报》
“《飞越疯人院》预示了大学骚乱、反越战、吸毒以及反文化运动。”——《纽约客》

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.
Review
“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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest《飞越疯人院》中，精神病院里的护士以严厉的手段、冰冷的器械和冷酷的心肠统治病人们，试图把他们改造为柔顺的、规矩的、毫无个性的机器，直到不受约束的麦克墨菲进入了疯人院。在病人中，印第安人布罗姆登很懂得体制的力量，即便麦克墨菲仿佛一步步走向胜利，但布罗姆登却知道更严酷的压制在等待着他们。当麦克墨菲从手术室被送出来，变成了一具眼神空洞的塑料娃娃，胆怯而沉默的印第安人敲碎了窗户，逃离这个疯人院。

肯·克西（Ken Kesey），美国作家。生于1935年，2001年因肝癌逝世。1959年在斯坦福大学攻读写作学位期间，他自愿参加了政府在一所医院进行的药品实验项目，并在1962年基于这一体验出版了长篇小说《飞越疯人院》，从而一举成名。他被称为嬉皮时代的催生者和见证人，一位严肃的小说家，可以同菲利普·罗斯和约瑟夫·海勒相提并论。他还在好莱坞影片中出演过次要角色。1990年任教于俄勒冈大学，直至去世。正如1997年“垮掉的一代”宗师金斯堡的离世，肯·克西的去世所留下的空白同样无人可以填补。

Ken Kesey(1935-2001) was raised in Oregon, graduated from the University of Oregon, and later studied at Stanford University. He was the author of four novels, two children’s books, and several works of nonfiction.