The Prague Orgy

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-30-2008; Dialogue alone is worth the price; Look, it's Roth ... the dialogue alone is worth the cost. Fun stuff, as always. The only drawback is you'll only wish it were a much longer rift.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-18-2007; Roth's 'Zuckerman Trilogy:' Epilogue.; The Prague Orgy (1984) is the epilogue to Philip Roth's (1933) Zuckerman trilogy: The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981), and The Anatomy Lesson (1983). It is the fourth of nine novels to enlist Zuckerman as Roth's fictional...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-13-2007; a concise satyrical report from Prague of the 1970s, as it could be seen by an American writer; The small novel, or rather novella, The Prague Orgy" can be treated as an appendix to the trilogy about the Jewish-American writer Nathan Zuckerman. This slim volume is the example of the real wave of the novels appearing in the 1980s...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Nov-22-2006; For Devoted Fans....; Many of the reviews of this piece are especially harsh. This shouldn't be considered a stand-alone novel. (It's little more than a short story, really.) It is just another episode in the ongoing saga of Nathan Zuckerman.This story is...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-30-2008; Dialogue alone is worth the price; Look, it's Roth ... the dialogue alone is worth the cost. Fun stuff, as always. The only drawback is you'll only wish it were a much longer rift.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-18-2007; Roth's 'Zuckerman Trilogy:' Epilogue.; The Prague Orgy (1984) is the epilogue to Philip Roth's (1933) Zuckerman trilogy: The Ghost Writer (1979), Zuckerman Unbound (1981), and The Anatomy Lesson (1983). It is the fourth of nine novels to enlist Zuckerman as Roth's fictional...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-16-2006; Roth's worse book; I cannot believe that Harold Bloom praises this work.It is a nihilistic, vulgar, not- at-all -funny, quite-disgusting piece of trash.It shows us something too about the vast range and ability of Roth. He can be the funny - funniest, and...; read full review | report as inappropriate