Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward
ISBN: 9780374511999
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
出版年: 1991-11-01
页数: 560
定价: USD 19.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
"Cancer Ward" 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. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.
作者简介
亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴(1918— ),俄罗斯作家。大学时代开始不停地思考社会政治问题,后因此进劳改营服刑八年,其间两次从癌症的魔爪中逃脱。刑满后积极投入文学创作,其中《伊凡·杰尼索维奇的一天》引起轰动,但《古拉格群岛》、《癌症楼》等杰作无法在当时的苏联出版,在西方国家率先出版后引起轰动。1969年被苏联作协开除,次年获诺贝尔文学奖。1974年被苏联驱逐出境,流亡西方。1994年回俄罗斯。