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,
"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" 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
then 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: Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn 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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