Hospital of the Transfiguration

Hospital of the Transfiguration (in Polish: Szpital PrzemienieniaHospital of the Transfiguration at Library of Congress) is a book by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It tells the story of a young doctor, Stefan Trzyniecki, who after graduation starts to work in a psychiatric hospital. The story takes place during the Nazi occupation of Poland in the Second World War."An Insane Asylum Serves As Setting For The Early Lem", a review by Wanda Urbanska, Chicago Tribune, October 23, 1988

The book is the first of a trilogy entitled Time Not Lost, and the only one of the three translated into English.

The book was adapted as a film of the same name (Hospital of the Transfiguration) in 1979, directed by Edward Żebrowski.Film fragment

Hospital of the Transfiguration is also available in paperback under (Mariner Books, 1991).

Here "transfiguration" refers to the Transfiguration of Jesus and accordingly to the Church of the Transfiguration.

See also

Massacre of patients at the Kobierzyn psychiatric hospital

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