
First issue, with publisher's logo on half title page, in first-state dust jacket with author photo credited to Hank Krangler on rear flap. Kesey's novel was adapted to the screen in 1971 by Paul Newman, who both directed and starred in the film. Each of the Stampers is a three-dimensional person, and that leads to some fun, some heartache and a great literary catharsis" (Henley, Wikelund & Lindquist, 39). That's like saying War and Peace is about one of Napoleon's shorter-lived military campaigns. Spokane is forever nailed to the wall of my memory, cracking the plaster, but the picture hangs, Ken Kesey 1984."įollowing the success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Kesey, in this work about an Oregon logging family, "aimed higher than many of his contemporaries, and… impressively close to his target" (Vinson, 754) "The novel's exquisite prose, which often reads like lyric poetry, draws us into the daily lives of the Stamper family… We've heard Sometimes described as a novel about a family feud. Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition, first issue, of Kesey’s second novel, movingly inscribed by him the same year his son Jed died in a Spokane hospital after a tragic accident, "For J- C-: Yes, J-, I remember you, and your daughter. Transformations were often used in names having semantics in urban words lexis that has no equivalent in Russian phraseologisms, ambiguous words in the title, metaphorical statements, author's abbreviations, neologisms."SPOKANE IS FOREVER NAILED TO THE WALL OF MY MEMORY, CRACKING THE PLASTER, BUT THE PICTURE HANGS": FIRST EDITION OF SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION, BOLDLY INSCRIBED BY KEN KESEY And in the "Sailor Song" transformations were of such thematic groups as rebel, religion, animals, alcohol. In the novel "Sometimes a Great Notion»: Stamper, outfits, Indian, injun, nigger, time, never give an inch, notion. Some transformations from English into Russian were found.


In the "sailor's Song": nature, animals, own, other's, religion, rebel, alcohol and drugs. In "Sometimes a Great Notion" they were: home and family, system and rebel, nature, life and death, time and truth, nationalism and discrimination. Throught the study key words were revealed and divided into thematic groups. Based on the the novels "Sometimes a Great Notion» and "Sailor Song» by Ken Kesey. The current work is devoted to the study of a literary text with use of method of automatic analysis, identifying keywords and analyzing their transformations when translated into Russian.
