No Exit
Noah Richler talks to new Israeli and Palestinian authors about their work, 50 years after the foundation of the Israeli state. 5: Where Am I?
Orly Castel-Bloom is something of a totem in the new Israeli literary pantheon: one of the so-called postmodernist writers whose surrealist, darkly comic work baffles some and outrages many. Her short stories are modern fables in strange and other-worldly landscapes, and her novel, Dolly City, is a wildly satirical portrait of a Jewish mother's dangerously excessive love for her son as she tries to protect him from the bizarre and nightmarish hazards of a city gone mad.
Reader Zoe Wanamaker.
SOUNDING THE CENTURY