''The Prague Orgy'' (1985) is a novella by
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...
. The short book is the epilogue to his trilogy ''
Zuckerman Bound
''Zuckerman Bound'' is a trilogy of novels by Philip Roth, originally published in 1985.
Plot
Each of the books follows the struggles and writing career of Roth's novelist alter ego Nathan Zuckerman.
Contents
The bound trilogy consists of:
* ...
''. The story follows Roth's
alter ego
An alter ego (Latin for "other I", " doppelgänger") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a differen ...
Nathan Zuckerman
Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character created by the writer Philip Roth, who uses him as his protagonist and narrator, a type of alter ego, in many of his novels.
Character
Roth first created a character named Nathan Zuckerman in the novel '' ...
, on a journey to
Communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
in 1976 seeking the unpublished manuscripts of a Yiddish writer.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.
1985 American novels
Novels by Philip Roth
Fiction set in the 1970s
Novels set in Prague
Jonathan Cape books
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