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Orly Castel-Bloom
is Israel's foremost writer. She was born (and lives) in Tel Aviv and studied film at Tel Aviv UNiversity.
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A fable of the comic-horror of modern urban existence seen through the eyes of 'Doctor' Dolly, a drop-out, a woman alone in an alienating city, Dolly mounts a solitary, crazy and comic protest against warmongers and beaurocrats. She adopts a 'son' who she finds on the road. Hilariously and miraculously, her son survives despite everything his mother (Israel) does to him.
A representative UNESCO work
WINNER:
- PRIME MINISTER’S PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
- UNESCO PRIZE: A REPRESENTATIVE UNESCO WORK
Price: £7.99
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Subject Classification:
Publication Date: 19/02/1997
ISBN 10: 952942607
ISBN 13: 2147483647
Paperback
Pages: 182
Format: 18.4 x 10 x 1.8 cm |
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Author(s):
Orly Castel-Bloom Orly Castel-Bloom is Israel's most fearless, provocative and original writer. She has won several major awards, including the 1992 Prime Minister's Award for Literature, and has been translated into many languages. Born in Tel Aviv in 1960 to French-speaking Jewish Egyptian parents, she completed her army training, then studied film at Tel Aviv University. She lives there with her two children.
'Dolly City' is a controversial novel, bravely executed. It is deliberately post-modern, using the flat, harsh and violent language of the cartoon or the world of punk. It is an irreverent satire, an original and timely tour de force about the Yiddish-mamma complex. Drifting and abandoned in a hostile city, Mother Dolly (Israel) doctors her son with a love that destroys, until she learns the meaning of compassion.
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ReviewS:
'This is a very accessible
way of telling the Holocaust story to today's teenagers. It focuses
on young people doing what they always do whatever the circumstance:
flirting, bending the rules, helping each other out, smuggling in
illicit objects (in this case a collection of puppets that they
can express their underlying anxieties with) though they are experiencing
one of the twentieth century's most inhumane events. The black and
white pencil drawings are beautifully done and very sensitive, yet
with a cool edge deriving from today's best comic book illustration,
and there are a number of touches of humour as well.' Amazon
review, 2010
‘ A novel of Joycean insolence ... A beautiful book whose non-conformism is a delight.’ (La Marsellaise)
‘ Kafkaesque, surrealist novel.’ (Rough Guide to Israel)
‘ From the first page Dolly City establishes itself as a major text.’ (Le Monde) |
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SUMMARY:
Dolly City is an irreverent, witty satire, an original and timely tour de force about the Yiddish-mama complex. Drifting and alienated in a hostile city, Mother Dolly (Israel) doctors her son with a love that destroys, until she learns the meaning of compassion.
Jacqueline Rose writes:'In Dolly City' , the most famous novel of new generation writer Orly-Castel-Bloom, the crazed protagonist carves a map of Israel on an abandoned baby's back, the borders enlarging as he grows... She is a writer sounding the warnings, fearful of the deadly legacy of conquest...' Dolly City' is part of the canon - predominantly male ib which she made inroads.' (2008) |
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