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Writing Prague: Philip Roth's and John Updike's Literary Takes on the Czech Capital. Bryla, Martyna Marika Literatura norteamericana - Temas, motivos Praga - En la literatura In this essay, a productive critical dialogue is established between Philip Roth’s and John Updike’s representations of Prague under communism in The Prague Orgy (1985) and “Bech in Czech” (1987). Focusing on two central threads in both works: the intertwining of literature and politics, and Prague as a Jewish city, this essay argues that in mapping Prague, Roth and Updike revisit their protagonists’ emblematic concerns, as well as reflect on the role of the writer and literature under different political systems, questioning George Steiner’s conception of literature in the process. 2024-09-30T11:20:16Z 2024-09-30T11:20:16Z 2024-09-30T11:20:16Z 2020 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34032 10.1353/prs.2020.0014 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Purdue University Press