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...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Communist society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
...very much out of the ordinary humdrum existence most of us lead. In truth, artistic creation is no more mystical or magical an experience than setting up equations, and almost as easy to understand. The subject matter--and perhaps even more important, the artistic process--is intrinsically bound to everyday life. The relationship between life and art should be a symbiotic one--art feeding on life and vice versa. This realization, philosophy professor Nelson Goodman argues, is essential, and essentially lacking from our general cultural background...
...CANCER WARD, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Soviet author uses a cancer ward as a metaphor for Russian society; the doomed patients reveal jagged, damning insights into the everyday enormities of life under Stalin. Not quite so successful a book as The First Circle, it is still a relentless narrative and a powerful, often poetic novel...
...record. Instead, the charges against Gandar and Pogrund are based on legalistic quibbles. For instance, the prosecution does not dispute that prisoners were tortured with electric shocks-only that the newspaper said the shocks were administered on orders from a prison officer and were an everyday occurrence...
...least partly true. Cancer makes for strange ward-fellows. The inmates of Solzhenitsyn's ward include men and women from the farthest reaches of the Soviet Union -peasants, ex-prisoners, exiles, bureaucrats, students. When confronted with death, they express jagged-and politically damning-insights into the everyday enormities of life as it had been under Joseph Stalin. Perhaps most shocking are the flashbacks of a powerful party functionary, now suffering from cancer of the throat, who recalls denouncing a friend to the secret police so that he might acquire the other half of their shared apartment...