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The Prague Orgy
A Literary Fiction Novella by Philip Roth
Subgenres:
- Soviet-Occupied Prague,
- Political Fiction,
- Writers & Writing
This book is for you if you're into...
- Literary quests for forbidden manuscripts in Soviet-era Prague
- Writers navigating censorship and darkly comic oppression
- Notebook-style storytelling with sharp observations on art under pressure
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral consisting of notebook entries from one of his best-loved characters, Nathan Zuckerman.
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.
There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own.
He also discovers, among the oppressed writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.
The Prague Orgy completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman bound.
It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.
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