ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote the book ‘Cancer Ward’?
A
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
B
Boris Pasternak
C
Leo Tolstoy
D
Alexander Pope
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cancer Ward (Russian: , romanized: Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cancer Ward (Russian: , romanized: Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cancer Ward, novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Though banned in the Soviet Union, the work was published in 1968 by Italian and other European publishers in the Russian language as Rakovy korpus. It was also published in English translation in 1968.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cancer Ward is a novel about a Soviet man, Oleg Kostoglotov, who is admitted to a Soviet hospital somewhere in Asia, and is treated for several months for a tumor. As Oleg communicates with his fellow patients and interacts with the physicians treating him, he learns to define himself and his future.

Detailed explanation-5: -But our own lab results suggested that Solzhenitsyn had probably, indeed, successfully cured his own testicular cancer. After Tommy’s funeral, Jane planned a trip to the Soviet Union to see some of his old friends, including Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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