Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. 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 Summary - by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Start Free Trial Summary PDF Cite Share Last Updated on May 6, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. 9780099575511 Cancer Ward 37.4000 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary /shop/books/fiction 'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday Times Definitely one of the books I read with my oncologist’s hat on. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a work that awoke the conscience of the world. Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Perhaps the most famous work of fiction dealing directly with the disease. 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. Brutally treated in squalid conditions, and faced with ward staff and other patients from across the Soviet Union, Kostoglotov finds himself thrown once again into the gruelling mechanics of a state still haunted by Stalinism. 'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday TimesĪfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. Brutally treated in squalid conditions, and faced with ward staff and other patients from across the Soviet Union, Kostoglotov finds. 'Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero' Edward CrankshawĪfter years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. Oleg, for example, sees the zoos tiger as symbolic of. 'Without a doubt the greatest Russian novelist' Sunday TimesįROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Cancer Ward is Solzhenitsyns least politically charged novel, though political overtones are not absent.

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