" "Dolly City" -- a city without a base, without a past, without
an infrastructure. The most demented city in the world." In the
midst of a futuristic-primitive metropolis, the accumulation of all
our urban nightmares, Doctor Dolly (certified by the University of
Katmandu) finds a newborn baby in a black plastic bag, and decides
to become a mother. Overcome by unfamiliar maternal urges, Dolly
dispenses with her private lab of rare diseases and turns all her
surgical passion onto her son, who she names "Son." Ceaselessly
cutting and sewing, Dolly is the scalpel-wielding version of the
all-too-familiar Jewish Mother, forever operating upon her son with
destructive, invasive love. In this grotesque satire of war and the
defensive measures taken to survive it, Orly Castel-Bloom, one of
Israel's most provocative and original writers, turns her own
scalpel upon that most holy of institutions, the myth of motherhood
-- and its implications in the work of a nation. Gruesome,
irreverent, and hilarious, "Dolly City" is widely recognized as one
of the most disconcerting -- and brilliant -- works ever written in
Hebrew.
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