I feel unqualified to judge Kesey. When beat writing emerged from jive talk, it's literary adherents where young and up to the task of redefining literature. For all the talk of
Don Quixote being the first
modern novel... our present literary fiction bears much more similarity to thsi work. There were others surely,
Go by John Clellon Holmes, and
On the Road by Kerouac but these were biographical. Kesey tacked the other beast, the novel. in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest he also took a tip from Guy de Maupassant, with a narrator who is insane.
"The worker takes the scalpel and slices up the front of old Blastic with a clean swing and the old man stops thrashing around. I expect to be sick, but there's no blood or innards falling out like I was looking to see-just a shower of rust and ashes, and now and again a peice of wire or glass."
I feel unqualified to judge Kesey. When beat writing emerged from jive talk, it's literary adherents where young and up to the task of redefining literature. For all the talk of Don Quixote being the first modern novel... our present literary fiction bears much more similarity to thsi work. There were others surely, Go by John Clellon Holmes, and On the Road by Kerouac but these were biographical. Kesey tacked the other beast, the novel. in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest he also took a tip from Guy de Maupassant, with a narrator who is insane.
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