An early realist novel by Stanislaw Lem, taking place in a Polish
psychiatric hospital during World War II. Taking place within the
confines of a psychiatric hospital, Stanislaw Lem's The Hospital of
the Transfiguration tells the story of a young doctor working in a
Polish asylum during World War II. At first the asylum seems like a
bucolic refuge, but a series of sinister encounters and incidents
reveal an underlying brutality. The doctor begins to seek relief in
the strange conversation of the poet Sekulowski, who is posing as a
patient in a bid for safety from the occupying German forces.
Meanwhile, Resistance fighters stockpile weapons in the surrounding
woods. A very early work by Lem, The Hospital of the
Transfiguration is partly autobiographical, drawing on the author's
experiences as a medical student. Written in 1948, it was
suppressed by Polish censors and not published until 1955. The
censorship of this realist novel is partly what led Lem to focus on
science fiction and nonfiction for the rest of his career.
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