One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Like many loud events associated with the name of the cheerful prankster Ken Kesey, his first book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1962 made a lot of noise in the literary life of America. Kesey was recognized as a... highly talented writer, and the novel became one of the main works for the beatniks and hippies. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a raw and devastatingly honest depiction of the boundaries between sanity and insanity. 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, he will be read in the next century as well, wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Indeed, even today the book continues to live on and does not lose its crazy popularity. Based on the novel, a film of the same name was made directed by Milos Forman in 1975, which conquered the whole world and won five Oscars. Numerous performances have also been staged in different countries, including Russia.