Раковый корпус

By Александр Исаевич Солженицын

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

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.