Cancer ward / Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. [print]

By:

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008 [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780374511999

Uniform titles:

Rakovyi korpus. English

Subject(s):

Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction

LOC classification:

PG3488.S692.C363 1991
PG3488

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Subject: 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. They are seen under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own. Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered.

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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. They are seen under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own. Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered.

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