The Prague Orgy
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher VINTAGE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780099476511
- ISBN10 0099476517
- Type BOOK
- Pages 86
- Collection INGLES #
- Published 2012
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureThe Prague Orgy
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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.