5/13/2023 0 Comments Cancer ward solzhenitsynOnce again he guides us into the enclosed world of the condemned and, at his relentless touch, The latest Solzhenitsyn novel to appear in America, "The Cancer Ward," engages another theme which, like prison, the author has witnessed and endured. Performing here what may be, after the historical cataclysm of Stalinism and Nazism, its highest cathartic function. Such a task could only have been accomplished by literature, Well, achieve what Camus deemed impossible: they compel the human imagination to participate in the agony and murder of millions that have been the distinguishing feature of our age. "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." "One Day," and "The First Circle" as Thus the union of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the theme of the concentration camp has produced one of the masterworks of 20th-century fiction. Of its forces, the high tide of historic time." He union of a great artist and a great theme constitutes, as Kierkegaard observed, "the fortunate in the historical process, the divine conjunction Translated by Rebecca Frank from the Russian. OctoA Diseased Body Politic By PATRICIA BLAKE
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