by Stanislaw Lem · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493592769
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«The Hospital of the Transfiguration» is the first novel by the renowned Polish author Stanislaw Lem, published by Impedimenta. Set in the early months of the Nazi invasion of Poland, this work tells the story of Stefan Trzyniecki, a young doctor who finds employment in a psychiatric hospital nestled in a remote forest. However, the madness from the outside seeps through the walls of the hospital, where a series of sadistic doctors experiment on the mentally ill, while the Nazis turn the sanatorium into an SS hospital. Lem evokes the monstrous in the human spirit in this novel.
Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Worldwide, he is best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris. In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
