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Demon Box
Hardcover edition
AuthorKen Kesey
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction and non-fiction
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
1986
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint

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.[1]

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."[2] 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."[2] 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Books of the Times; Demon Box". The New York Times (August 4, 1986). Retrieved on February 25, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-24/news/vw-8922_1_publishers
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