The Prague Orgy is a novella by Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist. He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award...

. The short book is the epilogue to his trilogy Zuckerman Bound

Zuckerman Bound

Zuckerman Bound is a trilogy of novels by Philip Roth, originally published in 1985.-Plot:Each of the books follows the struggles and writing career of Roth's novelist alter ego Nathan Zuckerman.-Contents:The bound trilogy consists of:...

. The story follows Roth's alter ego

Alter ego

An alter ego is a second self, which is believe to be distinct from a person's normal or original personality. The term was coined in the early nineteenth century when dissociative identity disorder was first described by psychologists...

 Nathan Zuckerman

Nathan Zuckerman

Nathan Zuckerman is a fictional character who appears as the narrator or protagonist of many of Philip Roth's works of fiction.-Character:...

, on a journey to Communist Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

in the 1970s seeking the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer.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.