The Prague Orgy

von Philip Roth

98 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—“a lithe comic masterpiece” (Newsweek) consisting of notebook entries from one of his best-loved characters, Nathan Zuckerman. In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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 institutionalized 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.The Prague Orgy 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.

• Themen: Belletristik Erzählerische Themen, Stoffe, Motive Politik
• ISBN: 9780679749035
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.01.1996
• Größe: 203 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group