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
Fiction, Russia, Soviet Union, 1955, 1945-1991Showing 11 featured editions. View all 64 editions?
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Part One
1.
No cancer whatsoever
Page 9
2.
Education doesn't make you smarter
Page 17
3.
Teddy-bear
Page 34
4.
The patients' worries
Page 48
5.
The doctors' worries
Page 65
6.
The story of an analysis
Page 76
7.
The right to treat
Page 92
8.
What men live by
Page 106
9.
Tumor cordis
Page 120
10.
The children
Page 133
11.
Cancer of the birch tree
Page 147
12.
Passions return...
Page 168
13.
...and so do the spectres
Page 191
14.
Justice
Page 203
15.
To each man his own
Page 216
16.
Absurdities
Page 229
17.
The root from Issyk-Kul
Page 238
18.
At the grave's portals
Page 254
19.
Approaching the speed of light
Page 266
20.
Of beauty reminiscing...
Page 282
21.
The shadows go their way
Page 298
Part Two
1.
The river that flows into the sands
Page 315
2.
Why not live well?
Page 322
3.
Transfusing the blood
Page 347
4.
Vega
Page 363
5.
Superb initiative
Page 378
6.
Each has his own interests
Page 395
7.
Bad luck all round
Page 410
8.
Hard words, soft words
Page 425
9.
The old doctor
Page 442
10.
Idols of the market-place
Page 460
11.
The other side of the coin
Page 477
12.
Happy ending...
Page 493
13.
...and one a bit less happy
Page 506
14.
The first day of creation...
Page 517
15.
...and the last day
Page 544
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.
Page 282,
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