{{Short description|1975 book by Stanisław Lem}} {{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject Books --> | name = Hospital of the Transfiguration | title_orig = Szpital Przemienienia | translator = William Brand | image = File:HospitalOfTheTransfiguration.jpg | caption = First standalone edition (1975) | author = Stanisław Lem | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Poland | language = Polish | subject = | series = | genre = | publisher = Czytelnik | release_date = 1975 | english_release_date = 1988 | media_type = Print | pages = 207 | isbn = 0-15-142186-2 | dewey = | congress = PG7158.L39 S913 1988 | oclc = | preceded_by = Man From Mars | followed_by = The Astronauts }}
'''''Hospital of the Transfiguration''''' (in Polish: ''Szpital Przemienienia''<ref>[http://lccn.loc.gov/87033659 ''Hospital of the Transfiguration'' at Library of Congress]</ref>) 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.<ref>[https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/10/23/an-insane-asylum-serves-as-setting-for-the-early-lem/ "An Insane Asylum Serves As Setting For The Early Lem"], a review by Wanda Urbanska, ''Chicago Tribune'', October 23, 1988</ref>
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 {{ill|Edward Żebrowski|pl|Edward Żebrowski (reżyser)}}.<ref>{{IMDb title|qid=Q9352165}}</ref><ref>[http://repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/8612 Film fragment]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=SZPITAL PRZEMIENIENIA {{!}} Cały film HD Edwarda Żebrowskiego {{!}} Film wojenny/Psychologiczny [1978 PL] - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot1Mp9SVdOs&list=PL2gv9m758aYIO_93z_7IphRvYQbdzZGa2&index=6&t=0s|access-date=2020-08-24|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref>
''Hospital of the Transfiguration'' is also available in paperback under {{ISBN|0-15-642176-3}} (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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