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 The story follows Roth's alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, on a journey to Communist Prague in the 1970s seeking the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer.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.
Works by Philip Roth
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- Goodbye, Columbus
- Letting Go
- When She Was Good
- Portnoy's Complaint
- Our Gang
- The Great American Novel
- My Life As a Man
- Sabbath's Theater
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Kepesh Novels
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- The Breast
- The Professor of Desire
- The Dying Animal
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Zuckerman Novels
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- The Ghost Writer
- Zuckerman Unbound
- The Anatomy Lesson
- The Prague Orgy
- The Counterlife
- American Pastoral
- I Married a Communist
- The Human Stain
- Exit Ghost
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Roth Novels
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- Deception
- Operation Shylock
- The Plot Against America
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Nemeses: Short Novels
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- Everyman
- Indignation
- The Humbling
- Nemesis
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Short Stories
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- "The Conversion of the Jews"
- "Defender of the Faith"
- "The Kind of Person I am"
- "Epstein"
- "You Can't Tell a Man by the Song He Sings"
- "Eli, the Fanatic"
- "Philosophy, or Something Like That"
- "The Box of Truths"
- "The Fence"
- "Armando and the Frauds"
- "The Final Delivery of Mr. Thorn"
- "The Day It Snowed"
- "The Contest for Aaron Gold"
- "Heard Melodies Are Sweeter"
- "Expect the Vandals"
- "The Love Vessel"
- "The Good Girl"
- "The Mistaken"
- "Novotny's Pain"
- "Psychoanalytic Special"
- "An Actor's Life for Me"
- "On the Air"
- "His Mistress's Voice"
- "Smart Money"
- "The Ultimatum"
- "Drenka's Men"
- "Communist"
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Collections |
- Zuckerman Bound
- A Philip Roth Reader
- Library of America series
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Non-fiction |
Memoirs
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On Writing
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- Reading Myself and Others
- Shop Talk
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Adaptations |
Films
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- Goodbye, Columbus
- Portnoy's Complaint
- The Human Stain
- Elegy
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Philip Roth bibliography
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