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| Title | : | Dolly City |
| Author | : | Orly Castel-Bloom |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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 |
Orly Castel-Bloom
Paperback | Pages: 185 pages Rating: 3.49 | 299 Users | 46 Reviews
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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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| Original Title: | דולי סיטי |
| ISBN: | 0952942607 (ISBN13: 9780952942603) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.49 From 299 Users | 46 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books Dolly City
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.Unconventional and disturbing. Something to re-read in order to digest/ comprehend better.
I reread Dolly City for a book review that I am writing. When the review is published, I'll provide a link to it here. I will say that lately I've been enjoying a number of books with fantastic last sentences. There's quite a bit of literary criticism on "the poetics of closure," usually in relation to poetry, and it would be interesting to apply these observations to Castel-Bloom's novel. Dolly City has a remarkable finale. You have to go through a lot of gore for this moment but it's worth it
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
Real downer and slog despite how much action happens constantly, an ever-changing barrage of murders, surgeries, and chaos that adds up to nothing. Definitely trying to go the Pynchon route of uniting the disparate events with a strange psedo-conspiracy, but it fails in every respect to add up or be compelling even in the unreliability. If read allegorically, well, it still doesn't mean too much. Gore gone lit as a criticism of Israeli politics sounds way cooler than the execution here!
strrrrange, surrealistic goodness.
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