Cancer Ward (), a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, follows a group of patients in a cancer ward, focusing on the implications of Stalin’s earlier “Great Purge” and how a police state is itself cancerous. Solzhenitsyn spent time in a Russian labor camp and uses some of . · One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 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, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. · One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 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, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the .
Solzhenitsyn has applied the same method to the subject of "Cancer Ward." Here he examines, with clinical precision, the nature of the physical disease and the process whereby the patient, like the prisoner--"stripped of his outer bark and ready to be planed"--is revealed to himself, and sometimes transformed by the confrontation with death. Cancer Ward tells the story of a small group of patients in Ward 13, the cancer ward of a hospita. Cancer Ward is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Completed in , the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year. At Beijing University, she found a copy of Cancer Ward. She thought she was reading about her own experience. How could this Russian understand her so well? Youqin was so excited, she couldn't sleep. Later, she read The Gulag Archipelago, and her life was set: She knew she had to commemorate the murdered, just as Solzhenitsyn had.
The cancer ward itself holds mostly terminally ill patients who receive radical surgery, radiotherapy or intravenous chemotherapy. The patients, however, are used as a vehicle for Solzhenitsyn to expose the inadequacies of the socialist state and at the same time he can expound, at length, on what life would be like in a merit and morally based system of government. One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 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, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in , two years after Stalin's death. In , the 35 year old Solzhenitsyn was himself diagnosed with a rare form of cancer known as seminoma, and was admitted for radiation www.doorway.ru importance of Cancer Ward lies in its ability for us as readers to consider that aspect of life which we all have in common our mortality.
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