Ward Six
by (russian) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
About This Novel
In 1890, Chekhov went to Sakhalin Island, a place where political prisoners were exiled, for a field trip. The hellish tragedy on the island changed his apolitical mentality, so he wrote "The Sixth Ward". This book is called "the most terrifying novel in the entire Russian literature". It tells the story of individual tragedies in an absurd world and shows the conflict between two concepts when people face pain: one believes that it is better to suffer than to be numb; the other believes that since the status quo cannot be changed, then one should endure it silently. Whether they were obedient or rebellious, both types of people in the book were eventually treated as lunatics and imprisoned in the sixth ward.
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