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Гаражная распродажа
Редко появляются на свет люди, способные хоть немного изменить этот свет, этот мир - причем изменить в лучшую сторону, сделать его ярче, богаче, полнее и сказочнее. Одним из таких чародеев, весельчаков и забавников был классик американской литературы XX века Кен Кизи. Вашему вниманию предлагается его забытый шедевр - книга альтернативной прозы "Гаражная распродажа".
544 pages, Hardcover
First published August 27, 1973
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About the author
Ken Kesey
68 books2,969 followersKen Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, CO, and brought up in Eugene, OR. He spent his early years hunting, fishing, swimming; he learned to box and wrestle, and he was a star football player. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he acted in college plays. On graduating he won a scholarship to Stanford University. Kesey soon dropped out, joined the counterculture movement, and began experimenting with drugs. In 1956 he married his school sweetheart, Faye Haxby.
Kesey attended a creative writing course taught by the novelist Wallace Stegner. His first work was an unpublished novel, ZOO, about the beatniks of the North Beach community in San Francisco. Tom Wolfe described in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Kesey and his friends, called the Merry Pranksters, as they traveled the country and used various hallucinogens. Their bus, called Furthur, was painted in Day-Glo colors. In California Kesey's friends served LSD-laced Kool-Aid to members of their parties.
At a Veterans' Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey was paid as a volunteer experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs and reporting their effects. These experiences as a part-time aide at a psychiatric hospital, LSD sessions - and a vision of an Indian sweeping there the floor - formed the background for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, set in a mental hospital. While writing the work, and continuing in the footsteps of such writers as Thomas De Quincy (Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1821), Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception, 1954), and William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch, 1959), Kesey took peyote. The story is narrated by Chief Bromden. Into his world enters the petty criminal and prankster Randall Patrick McMurphy with his efforts to change the bureaucratic system of the institution, ruled by Nurse Ratched.
The film adaptation of the book gained a huge success. When the film won five Academy Awards, Kesey was barely mentioned during the award ceremonies, and he made known his unhappiness with the film. He did not like Jack Nicholson, or the script, and sued the producers.
Kesey's next novel, Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), appeared two years later and was also made into a film, this time directed by Paul Newman. The story was set in a logging community and centered on two brothers and their bitter rivalry in the family. After the work, Kesey gave up publishing novels. He formed a band of "Merry Pranksters", set up a commune in La Honda, California, bought an old school bus, and toured America and Mexico with his friends, among them Neal Cassady, Kerouac's travel companion. Dressed in a jester's outfit, Kesey was the chief prankster.
In 1965 Kesey was arrested for possession of marijuana. He fled to Mexico, where he faked an unconvincing suicide and then returned to the United States, serving a five-month prison sentence at the San Mateo County Jail. After this tumultuous period he bought farm in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, settled down with his wife to raise their four children, and taught a graduate writing seminar at the University of Oregon. In the early 1970s Kesey returned to writing and published Kesey's Garage Sale (1973). His later works include the children's book Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear(1990) and Sailor Song (1992), a futuristic tale about an Alaskan fishing village and Hollywood film crew. Last Go Around (1994), Kesey's last book, was an account of a famous Oregon rodeo written in the form of pulp fiction. In 2001, Kesey died of complications after surgery for liver cance
Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, CO, and brought up in Eugene, OR. He spent his early years hunting, fishing, swimming; he learned to box and wrestle, and he was a star football player. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he acted in college plays. On graduating he won a scholarship to Stanford University. Kesey soon dropped out, joined the counterculture movement, and began experimenting with drugs. In 1956 he married his school sweetheart, Faye Haxby.
Kesey attended a creative writing course taught by the novelist Wallace Stegner. His first work was an unpublished novel, ZOO, about the beatniks of the North Beach community in San Francisco. Tom Wolfe described in his book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) Kesey and his friends, called the Merry Pranksters, as they traveled the country and used various hallucinogens. Their bus, called Furthur, was painted in Day-Glo colors. In California Kesey's friends served LSD-laced Kool-Aid to members of their parties.
At a Veterans' Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey was paid as a volunteer experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs and reporting their effects. These experiences as a part-time aide at a psychiatric hospital, LSD sessions - and a vision of an Indian sweeping there the floor - formed the background for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, set in a mental hospital. While writing the work, and continuing in the footsteps of such writers as Thomas De Quincy (Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 1821), Aldous Huxley (The Doors of Perception, 1954), and William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch, 1959), Kesey took peyote. The story is narrated by Chief Bromden. Into his world enters the petty criminal and prankster Randall Patrick McMurphy with his efforts to change the bureaucratic system of the institution, ruled by Nurse Ratched.
The film adaptation of the book gained a huge success. When the film won five Academy Awards, Kesey was barely mentioned during the award ceremonies, and he made known his unhappiness with the film. He did not like Jack Nicholson, or the script, and sued the producers.
Kesey's next novel, Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), appeared two years later and was also made into a film, this time directed by Paul Newman. The story was set in a logging community and centered on two brothers and their bitter rivalry in the family. After the work, Kesey gave up publishing novels. He formed a band of "Merry Pranksters", set up a commune in La Honda, California, bought an old school bus, and toured America and Mexico with his friends, among them Neal Cassady, Kerouac's travel companion. Dressed in a jester's outfit, Kesey was the chief prankster.
In 1965 Kesey was arrested for possession of marijuana. He fled to Mexico, where he faked an unconvincing suicide and then returned to the United States, serving a five-month prison sentence at the San Mateo County Jail. After this tumultuous period he bought farm in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, settled down with his wife to raise their four children, and taught a graduate writing seminar at the University of Oregon. In the early 1970s Kesey returned to writing and published Kesey's Garage Sale (1973). His later works include the children's book Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear(1990) and Sailor Song (1992), a futuristic tale about an Alaskan fishing village and Hollywood film crew. Last Go Around (1994), Kesey's last book, was an account of a famous Oregon rodeo written in the form of pulp fiction. In 2001, Kesey died of complications after surgery for liver cance
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September 23, 2010
Great collection of random bits and pieces, kind of like the cobwebs in Kesey's mind. Certain bits are hilarious, and someone should turn his mystical hippy bus road trip screenplay into an actual film!
March 25, 2009
Love this book- super interesting for any Kesey/Merry Pranksters fan.
July 25, 2011
This made a wonderful coloring book!
December 19, 2020
This is a bizarre trip. Like it feels like a trip on acid should feel like. The topics are all over the place, the writing feels both hyper kinetic and relaxed and the layout of the book is free form. If you take it for what it is, you can't help but like it. If you are seeking something straight forward and clear, well you probably aren't reading this, and it is a vastly different experience.
November 13, 2016
This is not an ordinary book. First of all it has a lot of images in it. But they are not simple images and work almost like a comics. Being both a huge comics' fan and a fan of the counter-cultural hippie 60s I tend to say that this is a brilliant collection. This book is not any less interesting than that of Mr. Tom Wolfe (acid-test) because it reveals a core of the 1960's youth revolution . Moreover, it kinda tells the same story only in different form and from a different perspective. To say that this is a masterpiece of a grounbreaking work would be a huge overrating but still it is original in many ways. It is like a chronicle or a documentary feature about the origins of the 1960s. It may be more interested for those who are already familiar with how and why the 1960s came to be. I do reccomend it to someone who likes Hunter Thompson or Grateful Dead or both.
April 27, 2023
Поклонникам Кизи и компании эта книга наверняка понравится, а вот простым смертным будет трудновато продираться через нагромождения изощренных эпитетов, поспевая за окрыленным психоделиками воображением автора по извилистым предложениям, к концу которых успеваешь забыть, о чем говорилось в начале.
"По ту сторону границы" воспринимается относительно легко, потому что в нем есть сюжет: то есть имеется начало, конец и между ними происходит что-то осмысленное. Единственный минус - текст напечатан вдоль страницы, так что книгу просто неудобно читать. А вот следующие за сценарием рассказы не могут похвастаться логической связностью, и потому иногда кажутся просто последовательностью слов, которые пришли на ум Кизи. Весьма вероятно, что именно так дело и обстоит.
"По ту сторону границы" воспринимается относительно легко, потому что в нем есть сюжет: то есть имеется начало, конец и между ними происходит что-то осмысленное. Единственный минус - текст напечатан вдоль страницы, так что книгу просто неудобно читать. А вот следующие за сценарием рассказы не могут похвастаться логической связностью, и потому иногда кажутся просто последовательностью слов, которые пришли на ум Кизи. Весьма вероятно, что именно так дело и обстоит.
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