Krebsstation

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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.

subjects: Russia,  Soviet Union,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Soviet union, fiction,  Patients,  Cancer,  Fiction,  Political fiction,  Slavic philology,  Russian Fiction,  Prisoners in Fiction,  Social conditions,  Psychological aspects,  18.53 Russian literature,  Ficción,  Novela política,  Cáncer,  Novela médica,  Hospitals,  Pacientes,  Large type books,  Fiction, general,  Solzhenit︠s︡yn, aleksandr isaevich , 1918-2008,  Cancer--patients,  Cancer--patients--fiction,  Pz4.s69 can2,  Pg3488.o4,  891.7/3/44,  Medicine in Literature,  Romans,  History,  Cancéreux,  Romans, nouvelles

Places: Soviet Union,  Uzbekistan,  Unión Soviética

Times: Fiction,  Russia,  Soviet Union,  1955,  1945-1991