School: A Novel
Autor Ray Levyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2023
Both an exorcism of contemporary academia and a comedic portrait of an artist seeking the means to survive
At once angry and jubilant, Ray Levy’s School is a curse on a dying system and an incantation for transforming pain into a vessel for capacious, creative selfhood.
A dissertation manuscript possessed by the spirit of Marquis de Sade; a lecture on psychoanalysis delivered as stand-up comedy by a dysphoric graduate student; a review of a found-footage horror movie that’s also a YouTube video of a conference presentation on French theory; an interview with an avant-garde filmmaker that’s really an invocation for conjuring your demon brother; oversharing and withholding, chanting and channeling, School is a slapstick roast of Derrida’s corpse and a mystical vision of a life in which you have not lost.
At once angry and jubilant, Ray Levy’s School is a curse on a dying system and an incantation for transforming pain into a vessel for capacious, creative selfhood.
A dissertation manuscript possessed by the spirit of Marquis de Sade; a lecture on psychoanalysis delivered as stand-up comedy by a dysphoric graduate student; a review of a found-footage horror movie that’s also a YouTube video of a conference presentation on French theory; an interview with an avant-garde filmmaker that’s really an invocation for conjuring your demon brother; oversharing and withholding, chanting and channeling, School is a slapstick roast of Derrida’s corpse and a mystical vision of a life in which you have not lost.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781573662024
ISBN-10: 157366202X
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 18 B&W Figures
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția Fiction Collective 2
ISBN-10: 157366202X
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 18 B&W Figures
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: University Of Alabama Press
Colecția Fiction Collective 2
Notă biografică
Ray Levy is assistant professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is author of Negative Space and A Book So Red.
Recenzii
“ There is such pleasure to be found in School, such virulence and cruelty. It’s a novel in rituals, a novel to read and reread until you disappear into its demon-ridden thickets of meaning and emerge as anything, a six-headed elk-owl that sings in the voice of Nancy Sinatra, a cenobitic orca, the end of Hegel.”
—Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan
—Joanna Ruocco, author of Dan
Descriere
Both a needed exorcism of academia and a comedic portrait of the artist seeking some means to survive