Demon Box (book)

Demon Box
Hardcover edition
AuthorKen Kesey
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction and non-fiction
PublisherViking Press
Publication date1986
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
ISBN9780140085303
OCLC911911149
Dewey Decimal813.54
LC ClassPS3561.E667

Demon Box is a 1986 collection of works by Ken Kesey. The book includes nonfiction and fiction short stories as well as some of Kesey's essays.

Background

Kesey explained why the collection of semi-autobiographical essays was titled Demon Box: "When Viking was bringing it out," he said, "they were desperate for something to call it. I told them, 'Don't call it anything .' It isn't a novel; it isn't an autobiography; it isn't journalism; I think of it as a box in which all this stuff goes." To his publisher, Kesey started calling the book a "box novel," a new form of literature. "If I were to think of it as a (traditional) novel, I would have joined it together and had a gradual progression of thematic movement and character change through it, but I didn't want to do that." Kesey also explained he considered the idea of publishing the essays in pamphlet form, then putting the pamphlets in a box and selling the box.

Contents

References

  1. ↑ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Books of the Times; Demon Box". The New York Times (August 4, 1986). Retrieved on February 25, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 Donovan, Dianne (September 24, 1986). "Author Ken Kesey at Home on Farm With 'Demon Box'". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved February 12, 2018.