Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward 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. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of...
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Cancer Ward 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. We see them 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. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374511999 (0374511993)
ASIN: 374511993
Publish date: November 1st 1991
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 536
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Classic Literature,
20th Century,
Medical,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Nobel Prize
A story about patients in a Soviet cancer ward... how could that be uplifting? Yet it is! Solzhenitsyn’s characters are always fascinating, always memorable. They ponder the great questions of life, the human condition, the nature of the world, morality, love, hope, pain. His books are satisfying to...
A story about patients in a Soviet cancer ward... how could that be uplifting? Yet it is! Solzhenitsyn’s characters are always fascinating, always memorable. They ponder the great questions of life, the human condition, the nature of the world, morality, love, hope, pain. His books are satisfying to...
This was one of my favorite books, and this author, one of my favorite authors. And then I find out he's an anti-semite who also held strong discriminatory feelings toward non-Russian ethnic peoples. That explains a lot actually. There are a couple of sections in this book that portray non-white eth...
My father's graduate school mentor gave this to me when I was twelve; I think I made it about halfway through. It felt like penance. Am going to try it again.
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