“It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so...”
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<b>FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF <i>THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO</i></b><br> <br> 'Solzhenitsyn is one of the towering figures of the age, as a writer, as moralist, as hero' Edward Crankshaw<br> <br> After years in enforced exile on the Kazakhstan steppes, a cancer diagnosis brings Oleg Kostoglotov to Ward 13. Brutally treated in squalid conditions, and faced with ward staff and other patients from across the Soviet Union, Kostoglotov finds himself thrown once again into the gruelling mechanics of a state still haunted by Stalinism.<br> <br> One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, <i>Cancer Ward</i> is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the "cancerous" Soviet police state. Withdrawn from publication in Russia in 1964, it became, along with <i>One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich</i>, a work that awoke the conscience of the world.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so...”
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
“Nu nivelul de trai îi face pe oameni fericiți, ci relația inimilor și felul în care ne privim viața. Și una și alta se află, întotdeauna, în puterea noastră și asta înseamnă că omul e întotd...”