Hospital of the Transfiguration (in Polish: Szpital Przemienienia) is a book by Polish writer Stanisà Âaw 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.
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 .
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.