Afbeelding van de auteur.

Ken Kesey (1935–2001)

Auteur van En eentje zag ze vliegen

28+ Werken 29,173 Leden 354 Besprekingen Favoriet van 84 leden

Over de Auteur

Ken Kesey, September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001 Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was born in Colorado on September 17, 1935. He graduated from the University of Oregon, and published two full-length novels that helped to give him a cult following. "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) owes much to toon meer Kesey's own experience as a ward attendant at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. This exciting first novel was told from the point of view of a half-Indian man who thinks of himself as the Big Chief pictured on the writing tablets of everybody's school days looking out at the other inmates in a Disneylike world. Its portrayal of the doomed but heroic rebel McMurphy stood for a particular kind of American individualism. The book was adapted into a successful stage play by Dale Wasserman, and in 1975, Milos Forman directed a screen adaptation, which won the "Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Forman) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman). Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) is a long, complex novel that troubled many of his earlier readers. Kesey's most recent novel was Demon Box (1987); although it was somewhat well received, it was still compared unfavorably to his earlier works. His last major work was an essay for Rolling Stone magazine calling for peace in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. On October 25, 2001, Kesey had surgery on his liver to remove a tumor. He died of complications from the surgery on November 10, 2001. He was 66. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Werken van Ken Kesey

En eentje zag ze vliegen (1962) 24,077 exemplaren
Geen rivier te hoog (1964) 2,796 exemplaren
Zeemanslied (1992) 621 exemplaren
Lucifers doos (1986) 554 exemplaren
Last Go Round: A Real Western (1994) 218 exemplaren
The Further Inquiry (1990) 119 exemplaren
Kesey's Garage Sale (1973) 112 exemplaren
Kesey's Jail Journal (2003) 110 exemplaren
Kesey (1627) 31 exemplaren

Gerelateerde werken

The Portable Beat Reader (Viking Portable Library) (1992) — Medewerker — 1,459 exemplaren
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (1999) — Medewerker — 593 exemplaren
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest [1975 film] (1975) — Auteur — 520 exemplaren
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Medewerker — 324 exemplaren
The Dylan Companion: A Collection of Essential Writing About Bob Dylan (1990) — Medewerker, sommige edities95 exemplaren
Caverns: A Novel (1990) — Introductie — 43 exemplaren
Sorcerers: A Collection of Fantasy Art (1978) — Voorwoord — 19 exemplaren
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren
Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the 70's (1973) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Northwest Review: Fall, 1957 — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren

Tagged

Algemene kennis

Officiële naam
Kesey, Kenneth Elton
Geboortedatum
1935-09-17
Overlijdensdatum
2001-11-10
Graflocatie
Kesey family farm, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
La Junta, Colorado, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Pleasant Hill, Oregon, USA
Woonplaatsen
Springfield, Oregon, USA
Pleasant Hill, Oregon, USA
Opleiding
University of Oregon
Stanford University
Beroepen
writer
Organisaties
U.S. Veterans Administration
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Robert Kirsch Award (1991)
Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1988)
Korte biografie
Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) 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.

Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957. He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 following the completion of a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later. During this period, Kesey participated in government studies involving hallucinogenic drugs (including mescaline and LSD) to supplement his income.

Following the publication of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, he moved to nearby La Honda, California, and began hosting happenings with former colleagues from Stanford, miscellaneous bohemian and literary figures (most notably Neal Cassady), and other friends collectively known as the Merry Pranksters; these parties, known as Acid Tests, integrated the consumption of LSD with multimedia performances. He mentored the Grateful Dead (the de facto "house band" of the Acid Tests) throughout their incipience and continued to exert a profound influence upon the group throughout their long career.

Leden

Discussies

Group Read, March 2020: Sometimes a Great Notion in 1001 Books to read before you die (maart 2020)

Besprekingen

Ik heb de film nooit gezien, dus ik kon dit boek onbevangen lezen. Het was een aangename leeservaring: Kesey zet je meteen op het juiste been: we zien alles door de ogen van de Indiaanse chief-zoon Broom. Na 20 bladzijden wandelt McMurphy binnen, met een air en een auro dat tot het eind van het boek blijft beklijven. Dit boek gaat natuurlijk in de eerste plaats over normaliteit en waanzin en de niet altijd duidelijk scheidslijn; in die zin is Broom de eigenlijke hoofdpersoon van het boek, ondanks de capriolen van McMurphy. Maar één van de hoofdthema's is ook macht en manipulatie: zowel McMurphy als de perfide tiran, zuster Ratchen, vechten de hele tijd een duel uit op het scherp van de snee. En de inzet van die strijd blijkt uiteindelijk humaniteit te zijn: de erkenning dat ook de zwakzinnigen mensen zijn en recht hebben op hun waardigheid. Het slot laat je meewarig achter, maar intussen heb je tal van ontroerende, heftige en hilarische scenes voorgeschoteld gekregen. Laat de film maar komen!… (meer)
½
 
Gemarkeerd
bookomaniac | 296 andere besprekingen | Mar 20, 2012 |

Lijsten

Books (1)
Read (1)
1960s (1)
Daria (1)
1970s (1)
1980s (1)
hopes (1)
AP Lit (1)

Prijzen

Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk

Gerelateerde auteurs

Statistieken

Werken
28
Ook door
15
Leden
29,173
Populariteit
#686
Waardering
4.1
Besprekingen
354
ISBNs
286
Talen
24
Favoriet
84

Tabellen & Grafieken