 "Donovan's
Brain"
by Curt Siodmak
(PB edition) Bantam Book, 1950
(Original) Knopf, 1942
A timeless classic of
a scientist and the brain he keeps in a jar. It's a perfect mix of horror,
sci-fi, noir...what we bachelors like to call the perfect paperback novel.
Written in a oh-so-errie first person journal/confessional style, Donovan's
Brain is the story of Patrick Cory, the courageous doctor/scientist
who tries to save the life of the criminal Warren Horace Donovan after
a tragic accident. Cory fails to save the body, but is able to keep the
brain alive. Soon, much to the doctor's surprise the brain in the jar starts
to show signs of continued consciousness. What happens next is the maddening
spiral of a man who loses control of his body and soul to the thing in
the jar. Donovan's Brain, if we can be so bold, is pop culture's
existential answer to Camus' The Stranger, questioning life, death,
the self, and the nature of being...with all the bad B-movie touches that
we American crave.
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