Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward

Cancer Ward is a semiautobiographical novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who won the Nobel Prize in Litrature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature." Like Solzhenitsyn, the protagonist of Cancer Ward is a Russian World War II veteran who served time in the Gulag (Soviet forced labor camps) … Continue reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Cancer Ward