The Prague Orgy

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AuthorPhilip Roth
LanguageEnglish
SeriesZuckerman Bound trilogy
SubjectTotalitarianism, Struggle of artists
The Prague Orgy
First English edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)
AuthorPhilip Roth
LanguageEnglish
SeriesZuckerman Bound trilogy
SubjectTotalitarianism, Struggle of artists
GenreNovella
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux (USA): Jonathan Cape (UK)
Publication date
1985
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (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, and was initially published in the USA in a single volume with the trilogy.[1][2] It was first published in England as a separate volume.

The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in 1976 seeking the unpublished manuscripts of a Yiddish writer.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.

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