Cancer Ward

Description

'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener* Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.

First Sentence

On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13.

Description

The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state."Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, "The Magic Mountain "by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death.

Subjects

Other Editions

• Cancer Ward: A NovelPaperbackFarrar, Straus and Giroux2015-04-14
• Cancer ward [by] Alexander Solzhenitsyn.Bodley Head1968-01-01
• Rakovyi korpus.Bodley Head1968-01-01
• Cancer wardBodley Head1968-01-01
• Rakovyi KorpusYMCA Press1968-01-01
• Divisione cancro.Il saggiatore1968-01-01