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Original Title:	דולי סיטי
ISBN:	0952942607 (ISBN13: 9780952942603)
Edition Language:	English

Dolly City Paperback | Pages: 185 pages

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Title	:	Dolly City
Author	:	Orly Castel-Bloom
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 185 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2009 by Loki Books, (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Israel. Novels. Literature. Jewish. Contemporary. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Geography. Cities

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Fucked up. At times brilliant, at times hilarious. I was not horrified because I immediately read it as an allegory of internal states. It is curious that unlike other unreliable narrators (closest comparison that comes to my mind is Beckett's narrators), Dolly knows she's crazy and reflects on her craziness, even within a state none of us would call normal. And everyone else is the same way. This frees up the conceit, somewhat, but also places the story outside of the mere surreal, and into one in which the horrors are more concrete. The levels of unreliability build on top of each other so that it is a range rather than a binary. There is no real analogue to the events that are happening except that they ring emotionally true. It's a book of brokenness from the start, and there is no real attempt to fix anything, but the impulse to fix is still there, is ever-present, like an echo of a pre-apocalyptic urge that seems oddly anachronistic and endearing. I'm ill equipped to really understand this book because I don't understand the Israel it satirizes, but I still felt the urgency of its voice. These reviews may be more illuminating: http://forward.com/culture/133213/a-w... http://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/205...

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Disturbing. Disturbed.

Gets your heart racing and mind pacing in no time. Next level satire and tragedy, so absurd yet so honest. Brutal imagery of the post modern world.

A great example of how the personal is political - in a fictionalized Israeli city presumably locked in constant war, every single interpersonal relationship is dominated by paranoia, aggression, and violence. The first fifty pages are incredibly shocking (cool that books can still do that), but its tough to sustain that level of attack. Luckily the relatively short length helps in that regard. Overall a really great novel about a mothers love for her son.

I am stunned! Never have I read a book so intense that I had to step away to breath. I need a drink to calm my nerves! From the first paragraph Castel-Bloom pierces you with her needle and you are frozen in a trance until you break away from the prose. I feel like I need to study some history or geography to fully grasp certain details of this novel, but regardless of what I didn't know, I did connect with the intense urge to protect one's child and I realized how we, as parents, can f*** up our

Paternity is legal fiction to James Joyce, what about maternity to this Jewish mother? Her account is so wild, it cant be anything other than fiction, but what if it conveys some kind of truth?This strange little book starts out totally nonsensical, by the end youre sure it corresponds to something that happened happens? to real people, in a really mad city, in the real world, but the language is too wild to piece it together easily. Its really funny, and provocative. It touches on so many

What a book! One of the more bizarre pieces of literature I've read recently.

Fucked up. At times brilliant, at times hilarious. I was not horrified because I immediately read it as an allegory of internal states. It is curious that unlike other unreliable narrators (closest comparison that comes to my mind is Beckett's narrators), Dolly knows she's crazy and reflects on her craziness, even within a state none of us would call normal. And everyone else is the same way. This frees up the conceit, somewhat, but also places the story outside of the mere surreal, and into one