by Alexander Solzhenitsyn · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140032291
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«Cancer Ward» is the novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, published by Penguin in paperback (576 pages, in English).
The novel is set in a provincial Soviet hospital in the mid-1950s, where Oleg Kostoglotov, a survivor of a labour camp, receives treatment for a tumour. The ward brings together characters of very different backgrounds, such as a Stalinist policeman or sick students, and their dialogues paint a portrait of Soviet society and state oppression, with illness as a metaphor for the system.
Original title in Russian: «Раковый корпус». Translation by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. The author received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970; this Penguin Books edition is from 1971.
For readers of Russian fiction and twentieth-century classic literature, particularly those interested in Soviet history and politics.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison 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". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.
