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The Prague Orgy


A Literary Fiction Novella


Subgenres:

  • Soviet-Occupied Prague,
  • Political Fiction,
  • Writers & Writing
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  • 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
Publisher Description

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In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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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