Sometimes a Great Notion
39 hrs. 23 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ken Kesey
Author
Ken Kesey
Narrator
Vyacheslav Manylov
Narrator
Vyacheslav Manylov
Description
After “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kizi was hit by real fame. This was neither a success nor even a literary triumph. Kizi became a prophet of two generations—a cult figure of a new American subculture. Maybe that’s why the author of “Cuckoo’s Nest” didn’t publish a second book for so long: the public’s expectations were too high.
People wanted a continuation, and he painstakingly wrote a dark, almost antique plot, where revenge, incest, and love intertwine. It was as if he deliberately avoided successful themes, luring future readers into the branching labyrinth of a new novel.
This book is hard to judge properly. The boys who knew Kizi only from Hollywood adaptations are frightened by its sheer size. Respectable husbands are irritated by the author’s claim to a place among contemporary classics. Either way, real courage is required to refuse the lure that gleams inside this novel-trap.
In the Oregon forests, on the shore of the great river Waconda-Augi, life in the town of Waconda is like an ancient Greek tragedy, with no right to make a mistake. In the mire of autumn and relentless struggle of the logging camps, in the doomed strike of the Stamper clan—stubborn drifters and loners—everyone lives by their own laws, and no force can break them. Daily battles with nature and unbearably hard work take on truly Old Testament proportions. Ordinary people grow into all-powerful giants. The story of love, work, perseverance, and duty turns into the greatest parable of the century. On this land there are plenty of half-tones, but there are no compromises and nothing can be done halfway.
Before you is the grandest novel of the 20th century—and it was written by Ken Kesey, the great American writer, guru of the 1960s, a “cheerful prankster” and a man of the earth, a figure worthy of Jack London and a herald of a new reality.
People wanted a continuation, and he painstakingly wrote a dark, almost antique plot, where revenge, incest, and love intertwine. It was as if he deliberately avoided successful themes, luring future readers into the branching labyrinth of a new novel.
This book is hard to judge properly. The boys who knew Kizi only from Hollywood adaptations are frightened by its sheer size. Respectable husbands are irritated by the author’s claim to a place among contemporary classics. Either way, real courage is required to refuse the lure that gleams inside this novel-trap.
In the Oregon forests, on the shore of the great river Waconda-Augi, life in the town of Waconda is like an ancient Greek tragedy, with no right to make a mistake. In the mire of autumn and relentless struggle of the logging camps, in the doomed strike of the Stamper clan—stubborn drifters and loners—everyone lives by their own laws, and no force can break them. Daily battles with nature and unbearably hard work take on truly Old Testament proportions. Ordinary people grow into all-powerful giants. The story of love, work, perseverance, and duty turns into the greatest parable of the century. On this land there are plenty of half-tones, but there are no compromises and nothing can be done halfway.
Before you is the grandest novel of the 20th century—and it was written by Ken Kesey, the great American writer, guru of the 1960s, a “cheerful prankster” and a man of the earth, a figure worthy of Jack London and a herald of a new reality.
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