Kesey, Ken (Vol. 3) - Kesey, Ken 1935–
Kesey, Ken 1935–
Kesey, an American writer best known for the black humor of his novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, has now published Kesey's Garage Sale. The comic book adventures of Kesey and "The Merry Pranksters" are the subject of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
[In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest] McMurphy gives the men not only self-confidence and a renewed sense of virility, but also what Kesey sees as man's only weapon against the waste land—laughter. There has been no laughter in the asylum; McMurphy notices that immediately and comments, "when you lose your laugh you lose your footing."… In effect, he teaches the men to be black humorists, and it is the vision and the balance of black humor that Kesey attempts to employ as a stay against the waste land. To Kesey, being human and having...
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