書名：One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest飛越瘋人院

難度：Lexile藍思閱讀指數1040L
作者：Ken Kesey肯·剋西
齣版社名稱：Penguin Classics
齣版時間：2005
語種：英文
ISBN：9780141187884
商品尺寸：12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：320
你可以選擇服從，然後獲得釋放；

也可以保持你的骨氣，但一直被留在病房裏。
瘋癲與文明，奴役與自由，
垮掉一代的“精神”，嬉皮時代的催生者和見證人。
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest《飛越瘋人院》實際上是當時美國社會的一幅縮影，《時代》周刊稱此書“是嚮體麵階級社會的陳規以及支持這些陳規的看不見的統治者發齣的憤怒抗議”。《紐約客》則說此書“預示瞭大學騷亂、反越戰、吸毒以及反文化運動”。

媒體
“我看見我這一代的精英被瘋狂毀滅。”——《嚎叫》，艾倫金斯堡
“《飛越瘋人院》是嚮體麵階級社會的陳規以及支持這些陳規的看不見的統治者發齣的憤怒抗議。”——《紐約時報》
“《飛越瘋人院》預示瞭大學騷亂、反越戰、吸毒以及反文化運動。”——《紐約客》

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《飛越瘋人院》中，精神病院裏的護士以嚴厲的手段、冰冷的器械和冷酷的心腸統治病人們，試圖把他們改造為柔順的、規矩的、毫無個性的機器，直到不受約束的麥剋墨菲進入瞭瘋人院。在病人中，印第安人布羅姆登很懂得體製的力量，即便麥剋墨菲仿佛一步步走嚮勝利，但布羅姆登卻知道更嚴酷的壓製在等待著他們。當麥剋墨菲從手術室被送齣來，變成瞭一具眼神空洞的塑料娃娃，膽怯而沉默的印第安人敲碎瞭窗戶，逃離這個瘋人院。

肯·剋西（Ken Kesey），美國作傢。生於1935年，2001年因肝癌逝世。1959年在斯坦福大學攻讀寫作學位期間，他自願參加瞭政府在一所醫院進行的藥品實驗項目，並在1962年基於這一體驗齣版瞭長篇小說《飛越瘋人院》，從而一舉成名。他被稱為嬉皮時代的催生者和見證人，一位嚴肅的小說傢，可以同菲利普·羅斯和約瑟夫·海勒相提並論。他還在好萊塢影片中齣演過次要角色。1990年任教於俄勒岡大學，直至去世。正如1997年“垮掉的一代”宗師金斯堡的離世，肯·剋西的去世所留下的空白同樣無人可以填補。

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.