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An edition of Раковый корпус (1968)

Cancer ward

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'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.

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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Pages
576

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Cover of: Раковый корпус
Раковый корпус
2003, Вагриус
in Russian
Cover of: Раковый корпус
Раковый корпус
2001, AST
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: Cancer ward
Cancer ward
2000, Penguin
in English
Cover of: Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
1972-09, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
1972-09, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
1972, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
1972-09, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
1969, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
1969, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Cancer ward
Cancer ward
1969, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English

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Edition Notes

This translation originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1968.

Translated from the Russian.

Published in
London
Series
Penguin modern classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.7344
Library of Congress
PG3488.O4 R24 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
576 pages
Number of pages
576

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32083586M
Internet Archive
cancerward0000solz_v0c3
ISBN 10
0141183241
ISBN 13
9780141183244
OCLC/WorldCat
43032543

Excerpts

On top of everything, the cancer wing was Number 13.
added anonymously.
Only a prisoner in his first years of sentence believes, every time he is summoned from his cell and told to collect his belongings, that he is being called to freedom. To him every whisper of an amnesty sounds like the trumpets of archangels. But they call him out of his cell, read his some loathsome documents and shove him in another cell on the floor below, even darker than the previous one but with the same stale, used-up air.
Page 282, added by Violet.

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