Above the nest of the cuckoo. Kizi K.

A cult novel, which is one in the hundreds of the most read according to Times. He went out in the sixties, in a bright time of protest of a new generation against greed, depersonalization, wars and violence. Liberalism against traditionalism, a person against the foundations. The novel shocks depth, excites, makes us think about life, of justice, about the system and its infallibility, about the boundaries of madness and normality, about freedom, about will, about choice.

must read. And also watch the movie “Flying over the Nest of the Cuckoo” with Jack Nicholson in the title role. Based on the novel, many performances are also staged in different countries, including in Russia.

“Above the cuckoo’s 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 Kizi read. And if everything will be fine and the order of things will not change, it will be read in the next century, ”wrote Los Angeles Times in the newspaper.

Indeed, and today the book continues to live and does not lose its crazy popularity.