Stratégies littéraires dans la littérature féminine israélienne

• Main Author: Elisa Carandina
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales 2009-12-01
• Series: Yod
• Subjects: literature; twentieth century; Women in literature; feminism; quest for identity; Israeli society
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/yod/393

This article deals with the use of myth in the novel Dolly City written by Orly Castel-Bloom. More specifically it aims to deepen how this novel is built on the idea of «repetition». This element is easily identifiable in the allusion to the Pygmalion myth redefined by Orly Castel-Bloom as myth of art as repetition instead of representation. Moreover the maternal use of Pygmalion myth allows Orly Castel-Bloom to approach the theme of creation and procreation as cloning, as the golem-shaped character of Son could suggest. Finally, this use of the myth is to be understood in comparison with the definition of «revisionist mythmaking» advanced by Alicia Ostriker.