One Flew Over the Cuckoo"s Nest

Like the numerous loud events associated with the name of the “cheerful prankster "Keny Kizi, his first book" over the Kukushkin nest "(1962) made a lot of noise in the literary life of America. Kizi was recognized as a talented writer, and Roman became one of the main works for Beatniks and Hippi.
"above the Kukushkin nest" is a rude and devastating image of the boundaries between sanity and insanity. "If someone wants to feel the pulse of our time, let him read Kizi. And if everything will be fine and the order of things will not change, it will be read in the next century, ”wrote in the newspaper Los Angeles Times. " Indeed, today the book continues to live and does not lose its crazy popularity.
Based on the novel, the film of the same name was shot (dir. Milos Forman, 1975), who conquered the whole world and received five Oscars. And also many performances have been staged in different countries, including in Russia.
A cult novel that is included in the hundreds of the most read according to the version