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Please note: All items are pre-owned unless otherwise stated in the item description. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and Communism and helped to raise global awareness of the Soviet Gulag forced-labor camp system.He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature 'for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature'. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, Cancer Ward offers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union.Īleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer and political prisoner. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own―Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered―the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. 1 Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat, and banned there the following year. 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.Ĭancer 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 1955, two years after Stalin's death. Cancer Ward (Russian:, romanized: Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death Otherwise in VERY GOOD Vintage Condition ~The pages are clean and intact w/no writing, rips, marks etc.

Alexander solzhenitsyn cancer ward