Над кукушкиным гнездом. И поджег этот дом.

Over the cuckoo's nest.

A cult novel that is one of the 100 most read by The Times. Released in the sixties, at a bright time of new generation protest against greed, depersonalization, war and violence. Liberalism against traditionalism, personality against foundations. The novel shocks with depth, excites, makes you think about life, about justice, about the system and its infallibility, about the limits of madness and normality, about freedom, about will, about choice. Jack Nicholson in the title role.
“If anyone wants to feel the pulse of our time, Kesey should read it. And if everything goes well and the order of things does not change, it will be read in the next century, ”the Los Angeles Times wrote.

And set this house on fire

America in the 1950s. Triumphant. Prosperous. Successful. sanctimonious. Bourgeois. Steeped in hypocrisy, dogmatism and averageness.

In the best of William Styron's novels, this era is judged by two heroes, each other's "alter egos" - the true "son of America" ​​millionaire Mason Flagg and her "stepson" - the neurotic artist Cass Kinsolving, tormented by his own "otherness".
Each of them has their own system of values, their own code of honor, their own view of the surrounding reality.