Charlie finds similar success, but not happiness, after his surgery. The surgery had been successfully conducted on a mouse, named Algernon, who manages to navigate mazes with dazzling speed. “Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on,” Charlie recounts in his first “progris riport.” “I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. . . He is severely intellectually disabled but learns that he may be a candidate for an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. When the book opens, Charlie is 32 and holds a menial job in a bakery. Keyes explored the human mind in several other volumes, but “Flowers for Algernon” remained his defining work. Millions more saw “Charly,” director Ralph Nelson’s 1968 film adaptation starring Cliff Robertson in an Academy Award-winning performance, or watched the television movies and musical based on the novel. Keyes crafted in stunted, then elegant and then again stunted prose revealing his character’s transformation. Generations of English students have met Charlie Gordon, the book’s narrator, through the journal entries Mr. The cause was complications from pneumonia, said his daughter Leslie Keyes.įirst published in 1959 as a short story, “Flowers for Algernon” was released in novel form in 1966 and has since sold millions of copies. Daniel Keyes, the author of the enduring classic “Flowers for Algernon,” the fictional account of a mouse and a man whose IQs are artificially, temporarily and tragically increased, died June 15 at his home in southern Florida.
0 kommentar(er)
