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The title of this book is one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.The writer of the book is Ken Kesey.Ken Kesey was born in Colorado in 1935. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he graduated in 1957. Ken worked in a psychiatric ward of a veterans' hospital for a while. Towards the end of the sixties he founded a group called The Merry Pranksters, who experimented with drugs, travelled through the country and critized the narrow-mindedness of the American system. Tougher police control caused the group to split up. Ken fled to Mexico to escape a five-year prison sentence for possession of marijuana. Ken now lives on a farm in Oregon.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest was made into an award-winning film directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
Other work by the author are ;
Sometime a Great Notion (1964, novel), Kesey's Garage Sale (1973, novel)
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest was first piblished in 1962 and the book has 283 pages.
I saw the play on April the 19th.

§ 2

The theme of the play is the struggle of the individual against the system. In the play this is pictured in the struggle between McMurphy and Nurse Ratched.

§ 3

Randle P. McMurphy
A gambler and con man, who is admitted to the ward from Pendleton Prison Farm, diagnosed as a psychotic....








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