d his life and treatment over to those same authorities.
Rusanov does not even want to know the truth about his cancer, although he keeps asking the doctor if it is, indeed, cancer. He prefers to be treated as an ignorant child with total trust in the medical authorities, and that is precisely the way that those authorities are prepared to treat him. Rusanov is a man who is going through life without worry, believing that as long as he does not bother life with questions or analysis, life will not bother him: Life, however, is not impressed: "Unforeseen and unprepared for, the disease had come upon him, a happy man with few cares, like a gale in the space of two weeks" (1). Rusanov sees himself as a special character, above the common run of other human beings, and he finds it difficult if not impossible to accept the fact that he has a disease and that for treatmen
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