New Releases by Ken KESEY

Considerado um dos 100 melhores livros de ficção em língua inglesa pela revista Time, o sucesso do cinema cult estrelado por Jack Nicholson chega à Amarcord. "Tinindo, tinindo, tilinta os dedinhos... [...] um voou para o leste, um voou para o oeste e um voou para fora, é um estranho no ninho..." É o som da cantiga popular de roda que os impulsos elétricos entoam na cabeça de Bromden, o narrador desta insólita aventura. Conhecido como Chefe Bromden, ele é um indígena mestiço alto e calado, herói de guerra e interno na ala de um hospital psiquiátrico nos Estados Unidos. Seus dias se perdem entre varrer indefinidamente a enfermaria e lidar com memórias e surtos alucinatórios motivados pelos repetidos abusos da equipe comandada pela enfermeira-chefe, a Srta. Ratched. Os dias são brancos, as noites, indiferentes. Mas algo muda com a chegada de uma nova figura, o Sr. R. P. McMurphy – um marginal condenado, viciado em jogos de azar e completamente insubordinado. Logo no primeiro contato, McMurphy e a Srta. Ratched se enfrentam, e esse antagonismo, levado adiante pela narrativa de Chefe Bromden, se torna não só uma grande alegoria do embate das forças culturais, morais e éticas dos anos 1960, mas também do próprio bem e mal como noções universais e repletas de matizes. A escrita de Ken Kesey é dinâmica. Não sem motivo, Um estranho no ninho foi adaptado para o cinema em 1975, o que lhe rendeu o Oscar de melhor filme, melhor diretor para Miloš Forman, melhor ator para Jack Nicholson e melhor atriz para Louise Fletcher. Ao expor a vivência de alguns homens de uma ala psiquiátrica para o mundo, Kesey despertou o interesse de muitos para o tema da saúde mental e os diversos significados de liberdade. Sem dúvida, um clássico rebelde da literatura do século 20. A presente edição conta com apresentação inédita de Natalia Timerman e prefácio de Joel Birman, ambos psicanalistas e escritores premiados. "Um trabalho de grande mérito literário [...]. O que o Sr. Kesey fez em seu romance pouco convencional foi transformar a ala de internos de um hospital psiquiátrico em uma alegoria sobre o bem e o mal." – The New York Times "Uma estreia literária brilhante [...]. Uma história forte e calorosa sobre a natureza do bem e do mal no ser humano. Kesey fez de seu livro um grito de protesto contra as regras de uma sociedade medíocre e aqueles que as reforçam." – Time "O triunfo final destes homens, a custo de terríveis sacrifícios, arrepia a todas as pessoas que leem. As cenas desse romance têm vivacidade cinematográfica." – The Washington Post "Um livro espetacular [...]. Os personagens são originais e reais [...]. Este é um depoimento contra o crescente controle sobre o ser humano e a sua mente, ainda que não seja panfletário. E tampouco o autor esquece que há uma linha tênue entre a tragédia e a comédia." – Houston Chronicle

Gökboet är en mäktig och provokativ roman av författaren Ken Kesey som tar oss med på en omskakande resa in i den psykiatriska världen på 1960-talet. Huvudpersonen Randle McMurphy, en livlig och rebellisk man, simulerar galenskap för att undvika fängelsestraff och hamnar istället på en mentalsjukhusavdelning. I denna klaustrofobiska och manipulativa miljö möter McMurphy en rad fascinerande karaktärer, inklusive den auktoritära sjuksköterskan Mildred Ratched. Konflikten mellan McMurphy och Ratched blir en kamp om makt och individualitet, där frågan om vad som egentligen definierar galenskap och friskhet ställs på sin spets. Genom sin skarpa prosa och gripande berättelse belyser Kesey samhällets undertryckande strukturer och ifrågasätter normer och konventioner. Gökboet är en banbrytande roman som utmanar vår syn på mental hälsa och individualitet, och lämnar läsaren med en djupgående reflektion över mänsklighetens villkor. I översättning av Ingvar Skogsberg KEN KESEY [1935-2001] var en amerikansk författare och ikon för counterculture-rörelsen på 1960-talet. Han är mest känd för sin roman Gökboet, som delvis hämtade inspiration från Keseys egna erfarenhet av att jobba på ett mentalsjukhus. Keseys verk blandar satir, social kritik och surrealism och utforskar teman som individualitet, uppror mot konformitet och människans längtan efter frihet.

Interviews with the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kesey. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

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Um clássico da contracultura que retrata os psicodélicos anos 60. O romance de Ken Kesey é inspirado em suas próprias experiências quando participou de pesquisas com drogas psicoativas no centro psiquiátrico do Menlo Park Veterans Hospital (Califórnia). Um estranho no ninho é protagonizado por R. P. McMurphy, um preso que escapa da condenação fingindo-se de louco. McMurphy é então internado em um hospício, sob a tutela da sádica Chefona, a enfermeira Ratched, que comanda os internos com suas rigorosas sessões de terapia e eletrochoque. Aos poucos McMurphy percebe que o hospício pode ser muito pior que a prisão, nesse novo universo cercado de pacientes inseguros, ansiosos e constantemente dopados. Pessoas que buscaram refúgio da sociedade no hospício. Um livro louco, mas muito real.

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family''s rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Kesey''s expanded version of the journals he kept while in San Mateo County Jail and Sheriff''s Honor Camp in 1967.

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Originally published in 1977 by the Northwest Review, KESEY is a collection of the writer''s original drafts, stream-of-consciousness outlines, poems, drawings and excerpts from works including Sometimes a Great Notion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest. The result is a fascinating glimpse into an outrageously creative mind, illustrating the development of Kesey''s writing style, approach and voice. Facsimile reproductions of handwritten notes and sketches, along with Kesey''s family photographs, appear throughout the book, lending it an intimacy that is all the more poignant given the author''s untimely death in November 2001.

The ''Sound City Acid Test'', originally made in 1965 as The Pranksters'' venture into ''the world of The Beatles'' is released for the first time on CD. Seventy-four minutes of reading, poetry, music and mayhem from the archives of Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs. Acid Test Vol 1 document their attempt to enact an acid test within the recording studio environment. After its release as a 1000-copy limited-edition LP, it was repeatedly boot-legged. This CD also features ''Vietnam Day 1966'' a previously unreleased musical reconstruction (recorded in 1967) of the Pranksters'' famous meeting with the Hell''s Angels which subsequently launched the career of visiting Prankster, Hunter S. Thompson.

It was around a sagebrush campfire in eastern Oregon that Kesey first heard the tale from his father - about the legendary "last go round" that took place at the original Pendleton Round Up in 1911. Hundreds of riders were competing for the first World Championship Broncbusting title, but it was one special trio of buckeroos that provided the drama: a popular black cowboy, George Fletcher; a Nez Perce Indian cowboy, Jackson Sundown; and a fresh-faced kid from Tennessee name of Johnathan E. Lee Spain. Who would walk away with the prize money and the silver-studded saddle? When the dust cleared, everyone knew they''d witnessed something extraordinary. Kesey has journeyed back into Oregon history to reclaim this long-remembered moment, beefed up the bare bones of fact, and whipped them into a full-blown rip-snorting Tale of the True West. Sixteen pages of rare Round Up photographs provide graphic testimony of the time. The tiny town of Pendleton is swollen to bursting that memorable weekend and bristling with colorful characters like Buffalo Bill Cody, wrestler Frank "The Cruel Crusher" Gotch, cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, and a formidable medicine man named Parson Montanic. From the teepees along the river to the teeming saloons on Main Street, Round Up fever blazes like a prairie fire. This story of love, sweat, and horseflesh is a unique Western, wild and wooly and full of fleas. Let ''er buck!

This epic tale of the north is a vibrant moral fable for our time. Set in the near future in the fishing village of Kuinak, Alaska, a remnant outpost of the American frontier not yet completely overcome by environmental havoc and mad-dog development, Sailor Song is a wild, rollicking novel, a dark and cosmic romp. The town and its denizens—colorful refugees from the Lower Forty-Eight and DEAPs (Descendants of Early Aboriginal Peoples)—are seduced and besieged by a Hollywood crew, come to film the classic children''s book The Sea Lion. The ensuing turf war escalates into a struggle for the soul of the town as the novel spins and swirls toward a harrowing climax. Writing with a spectacular range of language and style, Kesey has given us a unique and powerful novel about America.