In the third volume of the 30-volume collected works printed in the novel Rakoviy Korpus "in perpetuity" in Kazakh aul after serving eight years of imprisonment, Solzhenitsyn cancer patient gets permission to undergo treatment in a cancer clinic in Tashkent. There, in the summer of 1954, and conceived the story. The idea lay motionless for almost 10 years. Having started writing in 1963, the author has worked closely on the story from autumn 1965 to autumn 1967. Attempts to "New World" Twardowski print "Cancer Ward" were strongly suppressed by the authorities, but the text has spread in samizdat and in 1968 was published in Russian abroad. Moved almost all European languages and a number of Asian. At home, first published in 1990. At the heart of the story - a personal experience and observations of the author. Patients' Cancer Ward "- people from all over the vast country, from all walks of life. The reader witnesses the struggles with the disease, attempts to thinking about life and death, with the excitement of watching a shy changing social situation after the death of Stalin, when the country began to take if consciousness after a terrible disease. In the heroes of the story, inhabiting a hospital room, embodied the pain and hope Russia. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ( 11 December 1918 - 3 August 2008) was a Russian writer, dissident and activist. He helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were often suppressed, he wrote several books most notably The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. For the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature,Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.
