One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A cult novel that is included in the top hundred most read according to the "Times". Released in the sixties, in a bright time of protest by a new generation against greed, depersonalization, wars, and violence. Liberalism against traditionalism, the individual against the establishment. The novel astonishes with its depth, moves, and makes one think about life, about justice, about the system and its infallibility, about the boundaries of madness and normalcy, about freedom, will, and choice. A must-read. Also, watch the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" starring Jack Nicholson. Numerous plays based on the novel have been staged in different countries, including Russia. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a raw and devastatingly honest depiction of the boundaries between sanity and madness. "If anyone wants to feel the pulse of our time, let them read Kesey. And if all goes well and the order of things does not change, it will be read in the next century as well," wrote the "Los Angeles Times". Indeed, even today the book continues to live on and does not lose its insane popularity. A new translation was made by a young, talented translator Dmitry Shepelev.