Раковый корпус

By Александр Исаевич Солженицын

Subjects: Russia, Soviet union, fiction, Patients, Hospitals, Russian Fiction, Soviet Union, Pz4.s69 can2, 891.7/3/44, Prisoners in Fiction, Slavic philology, Fiction, general, Large type books, Political fiction, Pacientes, Cancer, 18.53 Russian literature, Cáncer, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Psychological aspects, Cancer--patients, Fiction, Solzhenit︠s︡yn, aleksandr isaevich , 1918-2008, Cancer--patients--fiction, Social conditions, Pg3488.o4, Novela médica, Novela política, Ficción

Description: 'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener* Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this novel, went in the mid-1950s from concentration camp to cancer ward and later recovered. The British publication of *Cancer Ward* in 1968 confirmed him as Russia's greatest living novelist although it has never been openly published in the Soviet Union.