| Hospital of the Transfiguration | |
| Title Orig: | Szpital Przemienienia |
| Translator: | William Brand |
| Author: | Stanisław Lem |
| Country: | Poland |
| Language: | Polish |
| Publisher: | Czytelnik |
| Release Date: | 1975 |
| English Release Date: | 1988 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 207 |
| Isbn: | 0-15-142186-2 |
| Congress: | PG7158.L39 S913 1988 |
| Preceded By: | Man From Mars |
| Followed By: | The Astronauts |
Hospital of the Transfiguration (in Polish: Szpital Przemienienia[1]) 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.[2]
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 .[3] [4]
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.