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Title	:	Cancer Ward
Author	:	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	May 1st 2003 by Vintage Classics (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature

Cancer Ward Paperback | Pages: 576 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Раковый корпус
ISBN:	0099575515 (ISBN13: 9780099575511)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov
Setting:	U.S.S.R.

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This work of Russian literature -which is quite epic in scope-deals with many themes.It is set in a clinic in Soviet ruled Uzbekistan for cancer patients ,in the mid 1950's ,shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin.It deals with the personal stories and lives of many different charactersThere are parallels between the cancer that ravages the bodies of the dying patients and the cancer of Communism that ravaged the once proud Russia.The hero of the novel is Oleg Kostolgotov who has gone from

Scene: Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, in the old Soviet Union, two years after the death of the brutal dictator, Stalin (1955). Oleg Kostoglotov is lying on the floor of a provincial hospital, at the entrance to the cancer ward, which is unpromising named , the 13th wing, looking up at the cold ceiling, his dead eyes stare. He can't get admitted until a space is available, but a vacancy will arrive soon, he feels death near. Meanwhile stoic Kostoglotov, a survivor of the infamous Gulag, and

I've spent so long reading this book about a whole load of people who have a whole load of cancer that I've almost started to entertain the superstition that all this thinking about cancer might give me cancer, like summoning a demon by speaking its name.Nevertheless, I will be thinking about it a little more as I try to write a proper review because this was an truly amazing book that somehow managed to show me all of life and death in just a few hundred pages. I loved all the fellas from the

I was slow to pick this one up, "After all," I thought, "how interesting can a book be about a ward full of cancer patients?" The answer is very interesting. This is an excellent book. It is a remarkable contrast to the epic fictional works of his that I've read of his. It is intimate, romantic, personal, and tragic. I heartily recommend this book.

Like the blood transfusion Kostoglotov received from Gangard, I literally felt this book flow through my veins. I was wary of the injection at the beginning, a bit numb in the middle and completely intoxicated toward the end.In fact, I think this might be the best piece of literature I have come across so far in my life.First of all - the characters. Despite being confined to the same small space and sharing a common fate, they are very colourful, different from each other and interesting in

In this novel Solsjenitsyn is above all a Russian writer: lots of characters (patients, doctors, nurses in the cancer ward of a hospital, somewhere in Central Asia, in the mid-50's, in full Soviet era). He takes his time to describe some of these characters in full, and through them he brings up existential, political and social questions. Let's say he offers a mix of Tolstoi and Dostojevski, although he is less whirling and feverish than those two classic models.The construction of the novel is

Cancer Ward is like all the other greats of Russian literature: Dense, passionate and rewarding. This truly beautiful novel is, to me, the best Russian novel of the twentieth century, and Solzhenitsyn is one of Russia's greatest writers ever to have lived.