Declare Books Toward Dolly City
| Original Title: | דולי סיטי |
| ISBN: | 0952942607 (ISBN13: 9780952942603) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Orly Castel-Bloom
Paperback | Pages: 185 pages Rating: 3.49 | 299 Users | 46 Reviews
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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...Rating About Books Dolly City
Ratings: 3.49 From 299 Users | 46 ReviewsEvaluation About Books Dolly City
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 oneI 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
This could easily be one of the weirdest and the most disturbing books I have ever read.
In Dolly City, the most demented city in the world, all the cars are Volkswagen Beetles, and all the trains lead to Dachau (Not that Dachau, just some old plank with the name Dachau written on it, a kind of memorial). Its a city of chaos and ugliness, a hostile, filthy, friendless place. Sometimes, even in Dolly City, I feel like a stranger, Doctor Dolly, the protagonist of Orly Castel-Blooms 1992 novel reflects. I want to go homeeven though this is my home. Read more:
In all honesty, I hated this book. If I could give it no stars without making it look like I didn't rate it, I would. Even though it was supposed to be a sattire, and the society was supposed to be corrupt, I just couldn't wrap my head around it at all. The narrator was just too much to handle.
Parts were fun but it's sooooooooo dark and grotesque. For feminists, but not for those with weak stomachs.
Disturbing. Disturbed.
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