One character in this work reads the book, What Men Live By, which prompts a discussion about what men actually do live by. When one character of this work first appears, he takes out a pack of cards 
One character in this work reads the book, What Men Live By, which prompts a discussion about what men actually do live by. When one character of this work first appears, he takes out a pack of cards and begins to teach a few other men how to play poker before his wife interrupts him twice to bring him bags of food and drink; a man named Federau later replaces that character, (*) Chaly, who hits on the girl who washes floors, Nellya. The protagonist of this work is worried that he has been assigned the unlucky number 13 along with people like Pavel Rusanov, and that protagonist is made impotent in the title place after going there from his exile in Kazakhstan. For 10 points, name this semi-autobiographical novel in which Oleg Kostoglotov goes to the title facility for treatment, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
One character in this work reads the book, What Men Live By, which prompts a discussion about what men actually do live by.
Cancer Ward [or Rakovy Korpus]