Cancer Ward (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1955-1956
- Setting: An unnamed city based on Tashkent, Kazakhstan, Soviet Union
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Politics, Doctors, Cancer, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Medicine, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Tashkent, Kazakhstan
Characters Discussed
Oleg Filimonovich Kostoglotov (fee-lee- MOH-roh-vihch ko-sto-GLOH-tov), a land surveyor. A loner, unmarried and without relatives, fiercely independent, and rebellious by nature, the thirty-four-year-old Kostoglotov is a former army sergeant and inmate from a Stalinist labor camp, arrested for making politically disparaging remarks about Joseph Stalin. Exiled to the remote central Asian town of Ush-Terek, he has been sent to a hospital in another unnamed central Asian city for treatment of stomach cancer. Skeptical of all authority, Kostoglotov clashes with...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Censorship--Ready Reference series)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Short Fiction)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Long Fiction)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Dictionary of World Biography)Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Ethics)
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