| Edition |
First Modern Library edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 560 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Rakovyĭ korpus. |
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. |
| Summary |
A largely autobiographical account of a group of people who pass through the cancer wing of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, it is a vivid portrait of individuals in isolation whose collective concern is disease. Through the stories of patients and doctors, political prisoners and bureaucrats, the young and the old, it probes the fears and the hopes of an entire cross-section of Soviet society. Cancer Ward has been seen as a metaphor for the malignancy afflicting the Russian nation, but the moral and ethical questions it raises-about love and conscience, life and death, spiritual sorrows and triumphs-rise above their immediate political context to assure universal significance. This is the complete, unexpurgated edition translated by Nicholas Betthell and David Burg. It includes Solzhenitsyn's world-famous letters to the Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers and the Writers' Union, a transcript of the proceedings of a session of the Soviet Writers' Secretariat, and an afterword by Vladimir Petrov. |
| Contents |
No cancer whatsoever -- Education doesn't make you smarter -- Teddy bear -- Patients' worries -- Doctors' worries -- Story of an analysis -- Right to treat -- What men live by -- Tumor cordis -- Children -- Cancer of the birch tree -- Passions return... -- ...So do the specters -- Justice -- To each man his own -- Absurdities -- Root from Issyk Kul -- At the grave's portals -- Approaching the speed of light -- Memories of beauty -- Shadows go their way -- River that flows into the sands -- Why not live well? -- Transfusion of blood -- Vega -- Superb initiative -- Each has his own interests -- Bad luck all round -- Hard words, soft words -- Old doctor -- Idols of the market place -- Other side of the coin -- Happy ending... -- ...One a bit less happy -- First day of creation... -- ...Last day. |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction.
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Soviet Union -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Political fiction.
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| Added Title |
Rakovyĭ korpus. English
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| ISBN |
0394604997 |
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