Cancer Ward
By Александр Исаевич Солженицын
"Cancer Ward" was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1969, it has 560 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Cancer Ward” Metadata:
- Title: Cancer Ward
- Author: Александр Исаевич Солженицын
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 560
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: 1969
“Cancer Ward” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Russia - Soviet Union - Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) - Soviet union, fiction - Patients - Cancer - Fiction - Political fiction - Slavic philology - Russian Fiction - Prisoners in Fiction - Social conditions - Psychological aspects - 18.53 Russian literature - Ficción - Novela política - Cáncer - Novela médica - Hospitals - Pacientes - Large type books - Fiction, general - Solzhenit︠s︡yn, aleksandr isaevich , 1918-2008 - Cancer--patients - Cancer--patients--fiction - Pz4.s69 can2 - Pg3488.o4 - 891.7/3/44 - Medicine in Literature - Romans - History - Cancéreux - Romans, nouvelles
- Places: Soviet Union - Uzbekistan - Unión Soviética
- Time: Fiction - Russia - Soviet Union - 1955 - 1945-1991
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Snippets and Summary:
On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13.
Only a prisoner in his first years of sentence believes, every time he is summoned from his cell and told to collect his belongings, that he is being called to freedom. To him every whisper of an amnesty sounds like the trumpets of archangels. But they call him out of his cell, read his some loathsome documents and shove him in another cell on the floor below, even darker than the previous one but with the same stale, used-up air.
"Cancer Ward" Description:
The Open Library:
A largely autobiographical account of a group of people who pass through the cancer wing of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, it is a vivid portrait of individuals in isolation whose collective concern is disease. Through stories of patients and doctors, political prisoners and bureaucrats, the young and the old, it probes the fears and the hopes of an entire cross-section of Soviet society. Cancer ward has been seen as a metaphor for the malignancy afflicting the Russian nation, but the moral and ethical questions it raises-about love and conscience, life and death, spiritual sorrows and triumphs-rise above their immediate political context to assure universal significance. This is the complete unexpurgated edition translated by Nicholas Betthell and David Burg. It includes Solzhenitsyn's world-famous letters to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers and the Writers' Union, a transcript of the proceedings of the session of the Soviet Writers' Secretariat, and an afterword by Vladimir Petrov. During February and March of 1955, several men pass through the men's cancer ward in a Soviet hospital.
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