The Prague Orgy, Philip Roth
The Prague Orgy, Philip Roth
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The Prague Orgy

Author: Philip Roth

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 2 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2016

Synopsis

In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s.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, consisting of entries from protagonist Nathan Zuckerman’s notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the Nathan Zuckerman series. It provides a startling ending to Roth’s intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.

About Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Book Award, and many more. He also won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and in the same year received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years “for the entire work of the recipient.”

About Malcolm Hillgartner

Malcolm Hillgartner is an accomplished actor, writer, and musician. Named an AudioFile Best Voice of 2013 and the recipient of several Earphones Awards, he has narrated over 250 audiobooks.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on May 25, 2018

In this short novel that closes the Zuckerman Unbound tetrology, Roth, well Nathan Zuckerman, gives us a look inside the communist police state of the Czech Republic in the 70s. He is trying to recuperate some manuscripts written by the father a Czech refugee friend of his in NY says his estranged (......more

Goodreads review by Dave on July 21, 2017

"No, one's story isn't a skin to be shed -- it's inescapable, one's body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that's at once your invention and the invention of you."--Roth The Prague Orgy is the epilogue to the Zuck......more

Goodreads review by Cymru on December 30, 2014

During college I lived in Prague for eight months, so I consider myself a god-damned expert on Czech culture. I’ve seen first-hand the grandmothers at the metro telling others (thankfully not me) to go fuck their mothers, I’ve been turned down with a flat out “zavreno” when trying to enter a shop th......more

Quotes

“This fitting capstone to Roth’s Zuckerman trilogy proves that no one now writing can be funnier and more passionately serious than Philip Roth.” Time

“Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth, a kind of coda to all his fiction so far.” New York Times Book Review

“One of Roth’s most brilliant (and funniest) works…A lithe comic masterpiece.” Newsweek

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