by Ken Kesey · Seix Barral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432245954
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Demon Box (1986) tells the life of Devlin Deboree, an author who, since 1967, ends his seclusion for possession and cultivation of drugs to the present. From his farm, a haven of the hippie myths of the sixties, the narrator attends the liquidation of generational figures. The death of John Lennon has its counterpoint in the Reagan era and Zen Buddhism, the echoes of Woodstock or reflection on madness and the filming of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are complemented and prolonged with episodes that occurred in Mexico, Egypt, in China after the Cultural Revolution or in London. The constellation of characters and motifs that embody an era -from Anaïs Nin to Cassius Clay, from LSD to the Vietnam War- is projected into a problematic present, channeled into an inventive and unusual structure that confirms Ken Kesey's gift of provocation and evolution and the ability to constantly maintain the interest and expressive tension that have earned him worldwide notoriety.
