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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...
...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...
...Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis led this country courageously through some of history's darkest moments - and we can't even manage to return simple wishes of peace and happiness to her now. Rather depressing, isn't it? NANCY WARD Whitewater...
...presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow smith that lends a slight feeling of familiarity to some of Cancer Ward's harrowing episodes. It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms of a dread disease but neglects it until TOO LATE because...
...long marred by a translator whose own writing level sometimes seems just about up to television-script standards, Cancer Ward is not so fine a book as The First Circle. But it adds measurably to Solzhenitsyn's most remarkable creation: the many-sided, often autobiographical composite character who was first seen as Ivan Denisovich, then as Gleb Nerzhin (in The First Circle) and now as Kostoglotov...