num_pages: 86
description: In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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 an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, 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.
language: English
title: The Prague Orgy
titlecomplete: The Prague Orgy
characters: Nathan Zuckerman
genres: Jewish, 20th Century, American, Audiobook, Novella, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 2452
series: Complete Nathan Zuckerman, Zuckerman Bound
publisher: Vintage