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    The Prague Orgy: A Novel

    By Philip Roth

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    The Prague Orgy is a startling conclusion to Philip Roth's intricately designed magnum opus, Zuckerman Bound.

    The Prague Orgy takes the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman on a quixotic journey to search for the stories of an unknown Yiddish writer. The entries from Zuckermans notebooks are rich with comedy and dense with observation, detailing his relationship with the oppressed artists of communist Prague. In his bizarre adventures with the city's outcast writers, he discovers a perverse but appealing heroism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 2, 2013
    ISBN9781466846739
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    Philip Roth

    PHILIP ROTH (1933–2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians’ prize for “the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004” and the W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice. In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2012 he won Spain’s highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France’s highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.

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    • 4/5
      Zuckerman bound is a four-volume trilogy plus epilogue comprising The ghost writer, Zuckerman unbound, The anatomy lesson and epilogue The Prague Orgy. It is a series of novels describing the rise of a Jewish novelist who resembles Philip Roth. Identity, particularly Jewish identity is one of the main themes in Roth's work.I did not care much for The ghost writer which I read in 1996, and then abandoned the trilogy, but picking it up last November and reading Zuckerman unbound, I was gripped again as with many of his great novels.While The ghost writer describes the struggles of the young, beginning writer, both the struggles with identity and carving out a place as a writer, in Zuckerman unbound the main character Nathan Zuckerman achieves celebrity status. At this stage the theme of identity gains a new dimensions broadening into exploring private and public appearance, and shaping a new identity as a successful, rich author.The anatomy lesson is the next book in the trilogy. It is quitessential Roth. This novel is absolutely hilarious. I will never again look in the same way at a play mat. This novels is a must-read for fans of Roth.Like Paul Auster, another Jewish-American author who often explores the Jewish identity, Roth is also unmistakenly attracted to Prague and Kafka. The Prague Orgy is a coda to the American trilogy.
    • 2/5
      This book is the perfect example of a great setup, but poor execution. It had all the makings of an excellent fantasy story, but fell short. I really did want to like this novel, but nothing ever really escalated. I wasn't thrilled, nor ever very suprised. It took me exactly where you would expect and didn't do so in a very enticing manner.It felt like a game of chess in a sense. While I do enjoy chess, you can't argue that it may not be a real exciting game. Similar to this book, which was largely based around these wars, felt like a game of chess. It was flat. No spikes of enthusiasm over the action. It just rolled on without any real bumps or even curves. For its size I felt like it had to get better. If i just read a little longer something was going to happen. Something I didn't expect. Something to make me excited. Nothing happened, and then it ended, in a similarily flat manner.