School

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.

Author: Ray Levy
Publisher: F2c
Published: 10/12/2023
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781573662024
ISBN10: 157366202X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Ray Levy is assistant professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. He is author of Negative Space and A Book So Red.