Cancer Ward (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1955-1956
- Setting: An unnamed city based on Tashkent in the Soviet Union
- Principal Characters: Kostoglotov, Rusanov, Dr. Gangart, Dr. Dontsova, Zoya, Dyomka, Sibgatov, Shulubin, Vadim
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Politics, Doctors, Cancer, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Medicine, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Tashkent, Kazakhstan
The Novel
Cancer Ward is what its title suggests: an exploration of an institution devoted to the care of cancer patients. In this public institution, people from all levels of society find themselves in the same predicament, struck down by a disease that terrorizes and enervates them. The doctors in the ward do their best to keep their patients’ hopes alive, and in some cases treatment seems to be remarkably effective. Overall, however, there is a sense of gloom and dread as patients worry over their “secondaries”—the tumors in other parts of the body...
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See Also:
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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