Cancer Ward (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374534713 ISBN 13: 9780374534714

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015

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"A literary event of the first magnitude." --Time

"The most moving of Solzhenitsyn's novels." --Clifton Fadiman

Reseña del editor:

The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death

One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state.

Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own—Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered—the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, Cancer Ward offers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union.

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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0374534713
• ISBN 13: 9780374534714
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 536