The Prague Orgy

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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 The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in the 1970s seeking the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer. The book, presented as journal entries by Zuckerman, details the struggle of demoralized artists in totalitarian societies.

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