...Shir Alon Abstract Focusing on Hebrew writer Orly Castel-Bloom’s novel Dolly City (1993), as well as on her short stories published in the same period, this essay analyzes how neoliberal principles of risk management, primarily risk privatization and speculation, shape postmodernist literary genres...

... neither radical change nor escape into a di erent reality. Orly Castel Bloom’s Human Parts (2002), for example, presents us neither with the destruction of Israel, nor with a time in which its problems will be solved, but rather with a projection that the present Israeli reality is “the end...

... A later dystopia is the brilliant novel by Orly Castel-Bloom, Dolly City , from 1993. I do not engage with this text here, as it marks a stylistic shift from the 1980s dystopias, as well as remains exceptional and radically different from the dystopias that follow in the 2000s. 4 A great number...