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Alexander solzhenitsyn cancer ward5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The staff at the hospital in this cancer ward put up with old-fashioned equipment and understaffing, and so they’re not all very sympathetic to the patients. The treatment he undergoes is very rudimentary and, at times, unsafe. ![]() Although his cancer is aggressive, he responds well to radiation treatment and hopes to make it out of the hospital someday. He stays with other cancer patients in a small hospital in Soviet Central Asia. The main protagonist Oleg Kostoglotov has recently been released from a slave labor camp and lives in exile, but he now suffers from stomach cancer. Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. ![]() Although banned in Russia following its publication, Cancer Ward received widespread critical acclaim. Solzhenitsyn spent time in a Russian labor camp and uses some of his experiences to enrich the novel. Cancer Ward (1968), a novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, follows a group of patients in a cancer ward, focusing on the implications of Stalin’s earlier “Great Purge” and how a police state is itself cancerous. ![]()
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