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Sanity Test
Sanity Test

The most dangerous conversations are the ones you have with yourself — especially when you start getting replies.

Sanity Test is a darkly comic epistolary novella chronicling the spiraling correspondence between a psychiatrist and an increasingly unhinged patient—or is it the other way around? As reality begins to blur with literary invention, what starts as a professional exchange devolves into a surreal battle of wits, ego, and obsession. With biting satire and a haunting ambiguity, this story explores madness, authorship, and the thin line between genius and delusion.
The book sat in a drawer for 14 years. According to AI, it sounds as if Gogol and Beckett co-wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
It’s probably time to finally release it into the world.

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Genre: 

  • Literary Collection

Age Level: 

  • Adult
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Sanity Test is a short book consisting of e-mails being exchanged mostly between a psychiatrist and someone who claims to be a former patient of his. The conversation begins a bit more professionally on the psychiatrist's side, but over the course of the story, devolves into something else. The psychiatrist is not sure which parts of the exchanges to believe, and neither are we as readers. We are left to wonder who is really spiraling and whether what we are being told is actually happening. 

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Sanity Test is a series of emails between Hubert Kawka and Wlodzimierz Pawski. It appears that Kawka is a mentally ill patient in a psychiatric hospital in Poland and Pawski is his primary carer, but as the emails continue, they become more frantic and questionable. The reader starts to wonder who is sane and who isn’t, and who exactly these characters are in relation to each other.

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