The Prague Orgy
Philip Roth
Random House
<p>In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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 institutionalised 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. </p><p></p><p><i>The Prague Orgy, </i>consisting of entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue <i>Zuckerman Bound.</i> It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.</p>