The Prague Orgy | |
Author: | Philip Roth |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Series: | Zuckerman Bound trilogy |
Subject: | Totalitarianism, Struggle of artists |
Genre: | Novella |
Publisher: | Jonathan Cape |
Pub Date: | 1985 |
Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Preceded By: | "The Anatomy Lesson" |
The Prague Orgy (1985) is a novella by Philip Roth. The short book is the epilogue to his trilogy Zuckerman Bound. The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in 1976 seeking the unpublished manuscripts of a Yiddish writer. The book, presented as journal entries by Zuckerman, details the struggle of demoralized artists in a totalitarian society.