by Ken Kesey · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330235648
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«One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» is the novel by Ken Kesey, published by Picador in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Chief Bromden, an Indigenous patient whom everyone believes to be deaf and mute, narrates daily life in a psychiatric hospital dominated by Nurse Ratched. The arrival of Randle McMurphy, a brawling gambler who fakes insanity, upsets the balance, encourages the other patients to disobey, and sparks a clash with the institution's authority.
English-language edition from 1980 in the Picador Books collection. The novel was originally published in 1962 and is Ken Kesey's first.
For readers of contemporary classics and for those who want to discover the novel on which Miloš Forman's movie starring Jack Nicholson is based.
Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
