The Prague Orgy

The Prague Orgy
First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)
AuthorPhilip Roth
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesZuckerman Bound trilogy
SubjectTotalitarianism, Struggle of artists
GenreNovella
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
1985
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. The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in 1976 seeking the unpublished manuscripts of a Yiddish writer.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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Works by Philip Roth
Fiction
  • Goodbye, Columbus (1959)
  • Letting Go (1962)
  • When She Was Good (1967)
  • Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
  • Our Gang (1971)
  • The Great American Novel (1973)
  • My Life as a Man (1974)
  • Sabbath's Theater (1995)
Kepesh novels
Roth books
Zuckerman novels
Nemeses: Short Novels
  • Everyman (2006)
  • Indignation (2008)
  • The Humbling (2009)
  • Nemesis (2010)
Collections
Film/TV adaptations
  • Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
  • Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
  • The Human Stain (2003)
  • Elegy (2008)
  • The Humbling (2014)
  • Indignation (2016)
  • American Pastoral (2016)
  • The Plot Against America (2020)
  • Deception (2021)
Related
Philip Roth: The Biography


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