The Prague Orgy

{{short description|1985 novella by Philip Roth}}

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| caption = First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)

| author = Philip Roth

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| country = United States

| language = English

| series = Zuckerman Bound trilogy

| subject = Totalitarianism, Struggle of artists

| genre = Novella

| publisher = Jonathan Cape

| pub_date = 1985

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| media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback)

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| preceded_by = "The Anatomy Lesson"

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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 The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in 1976 seeking the unpublished manuscripts of a Yiddish writer.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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Category:1985 American novels

Category:Novels by Philip Roth

Category:Fiction set in the 1970s

Category:Novels set in Prague

Category:Jonathan Cape books

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