On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13.
An edition of Раковый корпус
(1968)
Cancer Ward
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
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'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.
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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, 891.7/3/44Places
Soviet Union, Uzbekistan, Unión SoviéticaTimes
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Part One
1. No cancer whatsoever
2. Education doesn't make you smarter
3. Teddy-bear
4. The patients' worries
5. The doctors' worries
6. The story of an analysis
7. The right to treat
8. What men live by
9. Tumor cordis
10. The children
11. Cancer of the birch tree
12. Passions return...
13. ...and so do the spectres
14. Justice
15. To each man his own
16. Absurdities
17. The root from Issyk-Kul
18. At the grave's portals
19. Approaching the speed of light
20. Of beauty reminiscing...
21. The shadows go their way
Part Two
1. The river that flows into the sands
2. Why not live well?
3. Transfusing the blood
4. Vega
5. Superb initiative
6. Each has his own interests
7. Bad luck all round
8. Hard words, soft words
9. The old doctor
10. Idols of the market-place
11. The other side of the coin
12. Happy ending...
13. ...and one a bit less happy
14. The first day of creation...
15. ...and the last day
Edition Notes
Original Russian edition first published
by The Bodley Head 1968
This translation published by The Bodley Head, 1968, 1969
Published in Penguin Books 1971
Reprinted 1971 (twice), 1972 (twice), 1973 (twice), 1974 (three times), 1978
Copyright © Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1968
English translation copyright © The Bodley Head Ltd,
1968, 1969
Made and printed in Great Britain by
C. Nicholls & Company Ltd
Set in Intertype Times
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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.
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