Cancer Ward. Volume 3

In the third volume of the 30-Tomny Collected Works Prints the story "Crack Corps". The exiled "forever in Kazakh Aul after serving a 8-year sentence, Solzhenitsyn"s cancer suffers a permit to undergo a course of treatment in the oncological dispensary of Tashkent. There, in the summer of 1954, the story is conceived. The intention was lying without a movement for almost 10 years. Starting to write in 1963, the author came closely over the story since the autumn 1965 to the fall of 1967. Attempts by the "New World of the Twardovsky Print" Cancer Corps" were firmly supplied by the authorities, but the text spread to Samizdat and in 1968 he was published in Russian abroad. Translated almost to all European languages ​​and a number of Asian. The homeland was first printed in 1990.
The basis of the story is a personal experience and observation of the author. Sick cancer corps" are people from all over the huge country, from all social layers. The reader becomes a witness to the boring with the disease, attempts to understand the life and death, with excitement monitors the timid shift of the social situation after Stalin"s death, when the country as if the country began to acquire consciousness after a terrible disease. In the heroes of the story inhabiting one hospital ward, pain and hopes of Russia are embodied