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 Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
 
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie?

 
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PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
"A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching."--The New York Times
"An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real."--The Baltimore Sun
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progris riport 1 martch 3

Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Donners bakery where Mr Donner gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want. I am 32 yeres old and next munth is my brithday. I tolld dr Strauss and perfesser Nemur I cant rite good but he says it dont matter he says I shud rite just like I talk and like I rite compushishens in Miss Kinnians class at the beekmin collidge center for retarted adults where I go to lern 3 times a week on my time off. Dr. Strauss says to rite a lot evrything I think and evrything that happins to me but I cant think anymor because I have nothing to rite so I will close for today...yrs truly Charlie Gordon.

progris riport 2-martch 4

I had a test today. I think I faled it and I think mabye now they wont use me. What happind is I went to Prof Nemurs office on my lunch time like they said and his secertery took me to a place that said psych dept on the door with a long hall and alot of littel rooms with onley a desk and chares. And a nice man was in one of the rooms and he had some wite cards with ink spilld all over them. He sed sit down Charlie and make yourself cunfortible and rilax. He had a wite coat like a docter but I dont think he was no docter because he dint tell me to opin my mouth and say ah. All he had was those wite cards. His name is Burt. I fergot his last name because I dont remembir so good.

I dint know what he was gonna do and I was holding on tite to the chair like sometimes when I go to a dentist onley Burt aint no dentist neither but he kept telling me to rilax and that gets me skared because it always means its gonna hert.

So Burt sed Charlie what do you see on this card. I saw the spilld ink and I was very skared even tho I got my rabits foot in my pockit because when I was a kid I always faled tests in school and I spilld ink to.

I tolld Burt I saw ink spilld on a wite card. Burt said yes and he smild and that maid me feel good. He kept terning all the cards and I tolld him somebody spilld ink on all of them red and black. I thot that was a easy test but when I got up to go Burt stoppd me and said now sit down Charlie we are not thru yet. Theres more we got to do with these cards. I dint understand about it but I remembir Dr Strauss said do anything the testor telld me even if it dont make no sense because thats testing.

I dont remembir so good what Burt said but I remembir he wantid me to say what was in the ink. I dint see nothing in the ink but Burt sed there was picturs there. I coudnt see no picturs. I reely tryed to see. I holded the card up close and then far away. Then I said if I had my eye glassis I coud probaly see better I usully only ware my eyeglassis in the movies or to watch TV but I sed maybe they will help me see the picturs in the ink. I put them on and I said now let me see the card agan I bet I find it now.

I tryed hard but I still coudnt find the picturs I only saw the ink. I tolld Burt mabey I need new glassis. He rote somthing down on a paper and I got skared of faling the test. So I tolld him it was a very nice pictur of ink with pritty points all around the eges but he shaked his head so that wasnt it neither. I asked him if other pepul saw things in the ink and he sed yes they imagen picturs in the inkblot. He tolld me the ink on the card was calld inkblot.

Burt is very nice and he talks slow like Miss Kinnian dose in her class where I go to lern reeding for slow adults. He explaned me it was a raw shok test. He sed pepul see things in the ink. I said show me where. He dint show me he just kept saying think imagen theres something on the card. I tolld him I imaggen a inkblot. He shaked his head so that wasnt rite eather. He said what does it remind you of pretend its something. I closd my eyes for a long time to pretend and then I said I pretend a bottel of ink spilld all over a wite card. And thats when the point on his pencel broke and then we got up and went out.

I dont think I passd the raw shok test.

3d progris riport

martch 5-Dr Strauss and prof Nemur say it dont matter about the ink on the cards. I tolld them I dint spill the ink on them and I coudnt see anything in the ink. They said maybe they will still use me. I tolld Dr Strauss that Miss Kinnian never gave me tests like that only riting and reeding. He said Miss Kinnian tolld him I was her bestist pupil in the Beekman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becaus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

Dr Strauss askd me how come you went to the Beekman School all by yourself Charlie. How did you find out about it. I said I dont remembir.

Prof Nemur said but why did you want to lern to reed and spell in the frist place. I tolld him because all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb and my mom always tolld me to try and lern just like Miss Kinnian tells me but its very hard to be smart and even when I lern something in Miss Kinnians class at the school I ferget alot.

Dr Strauss rote some things on a peice of paper and prof Nemur talkd to me very sereus. He said you know Charlie we are not shure how this experamint will werk on pepul because we onley tried it up to now on animils. I said thats what Miss Kinnian tolld me but I dont even care if it herts or anything because Im strong and I will werk hard.

I want to get smart if they will let me. They said they got to get permissen from my familie but my uncle Herman who use to take care of me is ded and I dont rimember about my familie. I dint see my mother or father or my littel sister Norma for a long long long time. Mabye their ded to. Dr. Strauss askd me where they use to live. I think in brooklin. He sed they will see if mabye they can find them.

I hope I dont have to rite to much of these progris riports because it takes along time and I get to sleep very late and Im tired at werk in the morning. Gimpy hollered at me because I droppd a tray full of rolles I was carrying over to the oven. They got derty and he had to wipe them off before he put them in to bake. Gimpy hollers at me all the time when I do something rong, but he reely likes me because hes my frend. Boy if I get smart wont he be serprised.


Copyright © 1966, 1959 by Daniel Keyes
Copyright renewed 1994, 1987 by Daniel Keyes

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; 第1版 (2005/5/1)
  • 発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2005/5/1
  • 言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
  • ペーパーバック ‏ : ‎ 324ページ
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0156030306
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0156030304
  • 対象読者年齢 ‏ : ‎ 14 歳以上
  • 寸法 ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm
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四半世紀前に日本語版を読みましたが、英語の勉強を兼ねて、英語版と日本語版を併読（英語版をある程度読んだ後に日本語版で答え合わせをしつつ交互に読み進める）をしました。英語版と日本語版との違いで特に気になったのは、出だしと最後の拙い文章についてですね。英語原文の方が、日本語訳ほど崩れてないし、わざとらしくはないような感じがしました。英語原文の方は、発音に忠実にスペリングしているだけで、そこまでどもってるわけではないので。日本語版のあとがきによると、日本語訳は、放浪画家山下清の書いた文章を参考したとのことで、とても納得しました。
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In this summer I had read Flowers of Algernon written by Daniel Keyes.First of all, I introduce reasons I chose and read this book.I had watched drama of this novel in Japan. Therefore, I think that it is easy to understand story and sentences. In addition,when I research the book that is suitable for this task, I think content of this book is ideal. The reason is author had written this book with intention for reader. Also, this book is neither difficult nor easy. In bookstores, it is positioned on the difficulty level that those can take 470 points in TOEIC. So, I think it is just right for me. These are reasons I chose and read this book.

Next, I Summarize this book's story.The hero of this novel is Charlie Gordon who is 32 years old and a mentally retarded person. So, he has a mental age of six. He works in a bakery and frequent facility for the mentally handicapped. Dr.Strauss and Professor Nemur in university research an operation makes persons intelligence artificially and success an experiment makes a mouse of Algernon genius. After, Charlie is operated on for this. As a result, his intelligence is raised and he becomes able to read difficult books and discuss with students. Furthermore, he falls in love with Allice in facility for the mentally handicapped. However, there are not only good things but bad things. Since colleagues of the bakery regard him as errand, they become to fear him and dismiss him in their consensus. Additionally, as he becomes more intelligence than Dr.Strauss, Professor Nemur and so on, it disappoints him that he is operated by people with lower intelligence than him. He studies further, he can speak twenty languages and is well about physics and mathematics. In addition, he knows that he is not regarded as a person. Then, Charlie runs away and leaves for parents with Algernon and begins to research for children of mentally retarded people. Although the research is begun, Algernon sometimes begin to take abnormal behavior. Finally Charlie finds that improving intelligence is temporary and prove this theory. After, Algernon died in the end. Because of this death, he determines to meet his mother and know why her mother drives him out of the house. Allice takes care of him frightened by the deterioration of knowledge, but he finally refuses her. Then, he resolves to enter a nursing home. In this, he writes reports for study of Dr.Strauss and Professor Nemur. At the end of the report it is written "please if you get a chanse put some flowers on Algernons grave in tha bak yard."

I want to recommend this book to students especially.There are three reasons for this.
First, I think this novel's story makes them notice discrimination in the world. This novel's story is written from a mentally retarded person's point of view. Therefore, we can know the world from their view points and how we are contact with them, and we can find our wrong action to them.
Second, the way this novel is written is interesting. The basics of this novel is diary of Charlie. Because he is man with intellectual disabilities, spellings of his diary are sometimes wrong at the beginning and last. For example, at the beginning "should" is "shoud" and "maybe" is "mabye". Furthermore, as I indicated a while ago, spellings of the last sentences are wrong too. For this, we can find he has disabilities.
Third, as I indicated at the beginning, this book's difficulty level is suited for students. Actually, when I read this book, there are not such difficult words that I did not know them.
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The Most Amazing Story I've ever read. I was about to tear while reading toward the end. Getting higher intellectual ability doesn't reward you happiness. You have to struggle with all the world, and feel pleasure. However, how poor Charlie was... His life will mean a lot to you, sometime impress you deeply.
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世界的ベストセラーとなるだけあって、文章よし、人物よし、メッセージ性よし、ストーリー良しともはやなんの文句も出ません。個人的に好きな小説第1位です。
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5つ星のうち5.0 やっぱり名作。大好きです。
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　Retarded(知能遅れの）チャーリー（３２）の日記調の小説である。チャーリーはパン屋に勤務していて、いつもニコニコしていて、まわりの「賢いみんな」にあこがれている。
　そんなチャーリーは、ある日、ストラウス博士の知能回復手術の第１号に選ばれる。よろこんで手術をうけるチャーリー。チャーリーの知能はどんどん向上し、ついには一般人を超えて天才の域に達するのだが、そのとき「世界」は一変する。自分と仲良しだったひとたちが実は自分をバカにしていたことに気付いたり、恋愛（めいたもの）に苦しんだり、知恵遅れのために子どものころに両親が苦しみ、最終的に捨てられたことを知ったり。
　やがて、チャーリーは手術の欠陥に気づき、チャーリーに先行して手術を受けていたネズミのアルジャーノンが死ぬと、自分も徐々にかりそめの知能を失うことを覚悟するようになる。このとき経過報告（Progress Report）の文体も崩れ始めるのだが手術前のような無邪気な文章ではなく諦観めいた悲しさがある。同じアパートにいたFayのように自分を拒絶していく人もいれば、パン屋の主人のようにまた受け入れてくれる人もいる。自分が変わることで変わる世界と変わる人みたいな描写もこの小説の魅力かもしれない。
　1959年の古い小説であるが、作者のダニエル・キースさんはまだご存命のようである。
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I first saw ‘Charly,’ the film adaptation of Daniel Keyes’ 1966 novel ‘Flowers for Algernon’ in 1969, was very impressed and when I saw a movie tie-in edition of the novel I bought it. I believe I finally got around to reading the novel in the summer between high school graduation and the beginning of college in 1973. I was immediately struck by the stylistic approach (I hesitate to call it a ‘gimmick’ because I think it was the perfect way to tell this story), a series of ‘progris riport’s, in the mentally impaired man Charlie Gordon’s very limited writing style, at least in the beginning. I knew the story but even if I hadn’t seen the movie, I could flip the pages from the beginning of the novel to the end and the stylistic advancement, slowly regressing to something resembling the beginning, would know the trajectory of the plot.

Although the story went through various forms (short story, teleplay, novel, film), I consider the novel to be the definitive version of this profound and heartbreaking story. Charlie is chronologically in his early thirties but his mental age is probably seven or eight. He was taken to a special home for mentally handicapped children and then offered a job at a bakery with a cheap apartment nearby from a kind man named Mr. Donner. He mostly does custodial jobs at the bakery and, even though he realizes that his co-workers play practical jokes on him, he considers them his friends because they are all laughing at him. The key word here is “laughing.” As long as he laughs with them, he feels appreciated.

Charlie takes remedial writing classes at a center for adults with special needs taught by Miss Alice Kinnian. Miss Kinnian is beautiful, kind, and patient with Charlie so it is easy to see how Charlie can develop a “crush” on her. Through her he learns about the testing being done by Professor Nemur at the college. He immediately begins maze “racing” with Algernon, a little white mouse that has been injected with an experimental drug that is designed to improve mental capacity. They are interested in testing it out on a human and want to know if Charlie is interested. They know there are some risks of it not working and ask him if he is still interested in the surgical procedure. It doesn’t take long for simple-minded Charlie to want to get smarter, even if he is just able to beat Algernon in the maze race.

After the operation there are not immediate results but Charlie is beginning to grow impatient about going through the same exercises, racing Algernon, until he beats him. That thrill wears off as his writing and reading begin to improve. His rapidly increased mental abilities soon surpass even the teachers and the testers. He felt isolated and lonely before, when he didn’t understand that his “friends” at the bakery where he worked were playing jokes on him. They laughed and he laughed with them and accepted their laughter as friendship. When his intelligence increases, he notices one of his co-workers undercharging a customer and pocketing the extra change as a tip. The winks exchanged between the co-worker and the customer indicate that they’re both in on the scam. Charlie is now faced with a moral dilemma.

After not getting a satisfactory answer for how to handle the problem, Charlie brings it up with the co-worker, wanting advice for a “friend” who has seen his co-worker stealing from the boss. The co-worker says that his “friend” should mind his own business. This confrontation plants a barrier between Charlie and his co-workers, who start a petition to have Charlie fired.

Charlie suddenly has an extreme mismatch between his accelerating intelligence and extremely erratic emotions. He knows he’s in love with Alice Kinnian but he can’t express himself without making her uncomfortable. Every time he tries to express himself sexually, the negative association with sexual expression whenever Charlie’s mother scolded him—incontinence and nausea—will emerge as a ‘fail-safe’ behavioral intervention.

As Charlie’s intelligence grows exponentially, he feels isolated from others because he has outstripped everyone around him and can’t carry on an intellectual conversation with anyone on his own level—no one is on his level.

He meets a new neighbor, an uninhibited and sexually aggressive artist named Fay Lillman. She sees the three-dimensional maze Charlie has built for Algernon (Charlie ‘kidnapped’ Algernon) and sees it as a piece of ‘living’ art. Charlie can’t communicate on an intellectual level with her but he can express himself sexually with her and bypass “Charlie’s” behavioral panic device by seeing it as purely physical. He is not in love with Fay as he is with Alice.

He has now observed enough of the behavior of Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss to realize that they don’t see him as a human but as their most successful experiment. Nemur, in particular, dismisses any objections that Charlie puts forth and sees this experiment as a way to enhance his own reputation.

When Algernon begins to slow down and not run the maze as fast and actually begins the self-destructive behavior of flinging himself against the walls of the cage, Charlie understands that there is a flaw in the experiment that, if it makes Algernon regress, will probably affect him as well.

For a while, Charlie is at a peak of mental and physical energy:
‘It’s as if all the knowledge I’ve soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. And now that I’ve found it, how can I give it up? Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon—very soon—it will burst into consciousness. Let me solve this one problem. I pray God it is the answer I want, but if not I will accept any answer at all and try to be grateful for what I had.’

Charlie has used his phenomenal brain power while he has it to formulate the “Algernon-Gordon Effect,’ diagnosing the flaw in the experiment and stating, theoretically, what will ultimately happen to Algernon and himself.

After Charlie has given his ‘Algernon-Gordon Effect’ thesis to Nemur and Strauss and vowed that he won’t return for any more testing, he returns and finds Alice asleep on his couch. After her admission that she is coming to him now that they might both be on the same level, emotionally, they make love and Charlie realizes that they are both entwined in a spiritual/physical embrace. They both know that they can only be together for a short time. She has agreed to leave when he tells her the time has come. That time is approximately a week later. His ability to read and comprehend deteriorates and his irritability at her attempts to tidy up his apartment and drop useful books in obvious places for him to find lead him to resent her presence there. She packs up and leaves.

If there is any consolation in Charlie’s retrograde intelligence, it is the lack of ability to grieve in advance for all the beautiful things that will be lost. The Charlie that has returned with an IQ of 68 may be less intelligent but he feels unfiltered gratitude, no longer tethered to inductive reasoning or a hyperawareness of tragedy:
‘If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned a lot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit…Anyway I bet Im the frist dumb persen in the world who found out some thing importent for sience. I did something but I don’t remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me…’
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Jesús E.
5つ星のうち5.0 Great novel.
2021年10月28日にメキシコでレビュー済み
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I'm not gonna say much, because I don't want to give more that the Back over already gives, but I can say that this book will touch your heart, in a reflexive, smart, and kind and soft way. An essential read, and probable, my favorite novel.
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Jacob Rose
5つ星のうち5.0 Heartbreaking; made me grateful for the intelligence I have
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When looking into Sci-Fi, this book kept coming up as essential reading that was both heartbreaking and potentially life changing. At 268 pages, I thought I would take the chance on it. Any avid reader will chew through this in just a few days. It took me much longer to read, as I kept stopping to reflect upon the events of the book, something that I've never really done with fiction before.

This book really is heartbreaking, but was also eye-opening for me in the most profound way. I highly recommend this book, even to those not even remotely interested in science fiction as this element is very light in the story. It's 'human' in a way that I have come to love in every book or film that has this focus on relationships between people. To boot, the cover and astonishing yellow look great on any book shelf.
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Sid
5つ星のうち5.0 Very heart touching book
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This book was recommended to me by several people and it's really worth reading
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Bernat Sanabria Ducculi
5つ星のうち5.0 muy buen libro atemporal
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me tomó por sorpresa lo conmovedor de ciertas partes. bella historia sobre la autoconocimiento y el papel de los recuerdos en la construcción de la memoria y la autopercepción
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