![]() The staff at the hospital in this cancer ward put up with old-fashioned equipment and understaffing, and so they’re not all very sympathetic to the patients. ![]() ![]() The treatment he undergoes is very rudimentary and, at times, unsafe. Although his cancer is aggressive, he responds well to radiation treatment and hopes to make it out of the hospital someday. He stays with other cancer patients in a small hospital in Soviet Central Asia. The main protagonist Oleg Kostoglotov has recently been released from a slave labor camp and lives in exile, but he now suffers from stomach cancer. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. Although banned in Russia following its publication, Cancer Ward received widespread critical acclaim. ![]() Solzhenitsyn spent time in a Russian labor camp and uses some of his experiences to enrich the novel. Cancer Ward (1968), 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |