Cancer case. Solzhenitsyn A.

Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - Russian writer, publicist, Nobel laureate in literature (1970). The story “Cancer Corps”, presented in this publication, was conceived by Solzhenitsyn in the summer of 1954 in Tashkent, where, after the camp, he was treated in an oncological dispensary. Written in 1963-1967. The decision of the New World magazine to print the story met a firm ban from the authorities. The “Cancer Corps” spread in Samizdat, and in 1968 was published in Russian abroad. Translated to almost all European and series of Asian languages. In his homeland, for the first time was printed in 1990. The heroes of the story are patients of the “cancer corps” in the Central Asian city, in the middle of the twentieth century. Among them are people from all over a huge country, from all social strata, including exiles. Bowing with the disease. Attempts to comprehend life and death. The public situation after the death of Stalin, when the country seemed to have began to gain consciousness after a terrible illness. In the heroes of the story, inhabiting one hospital ward, the pain and hopes of Russia are embodied.