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Let’s explore foreign, totalitarian countries by dissecting the most dysfunctional characters it produces! Zuckerman, Philip Roth’s recurring character, finds himself trying to recover a manuscript for his friend, but there is one slight problem: he must retrives the manuscripts from his friend’s ex-wife. Tomfoolery ensues when Zuckerman is introduced with his friend’s wife, Olga (a diry-mouthed, lecherous, vagina enthusiast) at a Prague Orgy, and she immediately cried, ”Kafka is dead!” Indeed, Prague is a void for writers where the government listens and watches to your every type. Kafka is not only dead, but has taken every shred of hope and morality along with him.
Olga, who is fascinated by the word “Fuck,” a word that does not translate in Russian, a word that exudes all the power Olga lacks, wants desperately to be a part of the American world. Olga begs Zuckermen for sex, liberty, and marriage in America; thus, through Olga, Roth highlights the moral deterioration of a country whose only liberties are fucking and drinking.
I won’t ruin the ending of the fucking Prague Orgy, but this little fucking novella can defintely be fucking read in a day.
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You are such a biter with the “fuck”, after I told you I wrote a response paper in which I fucking cursed throughout the whole thing, and which my thesis was… huh… I forgot exactly what it was but it had to do with Olga and the word fuck.
You make totalitarian Prague sound like the paradise I’ve been looking for– a world where all I do is fuck, drink, and well, I’d have to add read in there too.
Comment by Apa December 4, 2007 @ 6:41 am