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Bezig met laden... En eentje zag ze vliegen (1962)door Ken Kesey
  
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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! (  ) bookomaniac | Mar 20, 2012 | 
 As a postgraduate student in the writing program at Stanford, Kesey was in on some early LSD experiments at a veterans' hospital, and Chief Broom's subjective vision is full of dislocations and transformations, but Kesey is systematic in fusing Christian mythology with the American myth of the white man and the noble red man fighting against the encroachment of civilization, represented by women. Though in modern society women are as much subject to the processes of mechanized conformity as men (some say more), the inmates of this symbolic hospital are all male, and McMurphy calls them "victims of a matriarchy." There's a long literary tradition behind this man's-man view of women as the castrater-lobotomizers; Kesey updated it, on the theory that comic-strip heroes are the true American mythic heroes, and in terms of public response to the book and to the stage productions of it he proved his point. The novel is comic-book Freud: the man who achieves his manhood (keeping women under him, happy whores in bed) is the free man—he's the buckaroo with the power of laughter. Leslie Fiedler described Kesey's novel as "the dream once dreamed in the woods, and now redreamed on pot and acid." Kesey's concept of male and female is not so very remote from that in Mailer's writing, though Kesey celebrates keeping the relationships at a mythic comic-strip level, while Mailer, in his foolhardy greatness, delves into his own comic-strip macho.  The world of this brilliant first novel is Inside—inside a mental hospital and inside the blocked minds of its inmates. Sordid sights and sounds abound, but Novelist Kesey has not descended to mere shock treatment or isolation-ward documentary. His book is a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil, despite its macabre setting.  What Mr. Kesey has done in his unusual novel is to transform the plight of a ward of inmates in a mental institution into a glittering parable of good and evil. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Heeft de bewerkingIs verkort inHeeft als studiegids voor studenten
He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over. He's a lusty, profane, life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women; at every turn, he openly defies her rule. The contest starts as sport (with McMurphy taking bets on the outcome) but soon it develops into a grim struggle for the minds and hearts of the men, into an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Big Nurse, backed by the full power of authority ... McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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