Like the numerous loud events related to the name "Merry prankster" Ken Кизи, an exit in 1962 of his first book "Above a cuckoo nest" produced much noise in literary life of America. After her appearance Кизи was confessed by the most talented writer, and a novel became one of main works of motions of beatniks and hippie. "Above a cuckoo nest" is this rough and devastatingly honest image of borders between by judiciousness and madness. "If anybody will want to feel the pulse of our time, let Кизи reads better. And if all will be good and the order of things will not change, him will read and in a next century", - wrote to "Los Angeles of Таймс". Really, a book continues to live and did not lose former mad popularity in our days.On reasons of novel an of the same name movie Милошем Форманом was made, overmastering whole world and getting five Oscars, and also the great number of theatricals is put in different countries, including in Russia.