By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward examines the connection of a bunch of individuals within the melanoma ward of a provincial Soviet sanatorium in 1955, years after Stalin's demise. We see them less than basic conditions, and in addition reexamined on the 11th hour of sickness. jointly they signify a extraordinary cross-section of up to date Russian characters and attitudes. The reports of the critical personality, Oleg Kostoglotov, heavily mirror the author's personal: Solzhenitsyn himself turned a sufferer in a melanoma ward within the mid-1950s, on his unencumber from a hard work camp, and later recovered. Translated by way of Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.
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He could walk and bend freely and had nothing to complain of. When they discharged him Ludmila Afanasyevna had warned him as he kissed her hands, “Be careful, Sharaf! ” But he hadn’t been able to find the right sort of work and had to become a delivery man again. And as a delivery man could he avoid jumping down from the back of the van on to the ground? Or stand by without helping the loader or driver? Everything had been all right until one day a drum had rolled down off the van and struck Sharaf right on his bad spot.
She said encouragingly, louder than necessary, as people do when speaking to someone whose native tongue is different from their own. “You’re making good progress, Egenberdiev! ” Ahmadjan knew what he was supposed to do. He had to translate what she said into Uzbek. )* * Ahmadjan is an Uzbek, Egenberdiev a Kazakh. They speak different Turkic dialects. Cancer Ward 53 Egenberdiev gazed at Ludmila Afanasyevna. His eyes showed hope and trust, delight even, the delight with which simple souls regard genuinely educated, genuinely useful people.
Zoya did not put her cap back on. The top button of her uniform was undone and the gold-gray collar of her dress peeped out. ” Her eyelashes jerked up. “Well then, it’ll have to wait till day duty. Now it’s time for sleep. ” “Yes, I…I’m visiting too. ” “Well, theirs is a different sort of hand and they don’t stretch it out. Zoya, all my life I’ve hated being a guinea pig. They’re giving me treatment here, but nobody explains anything. I can’t stand it. I saw you with a book the other day—Pathological Anatomy.