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. Kesey explained why the collection of semi-autobiographical essays and stories 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 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 and stories in pamphlet form, then putting the pamphlets in a box and selling the box. In the collection, Kesey uses the name "Devlin Deboree" as his autobiographical reference. Many of the stories and essays include his personal friends, neighbors and references to his Nebo, Oregon farm.
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| Author: | Ken Kesey |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Number of editions: | 2 |