Arnon Grunberg

Narcissist

Guilt

Hotel Rixos in Truskavets looks from the outside a bit like public housing.
From the inside the hotel manages to be Ukrainian and luxurious at the same time. Rixos is both hotel and sanatorium.
The lady at the front desk offered us a tour of the hotel and the medical facilities that lasted almost two hours. At the end of the tour the lady asked: “When do you want to see the doctor?” “Let’s have lunch first,” I answered.
The lady answered: “We recommend, first see the doctor, then go into treatment.” It’s absolutely unfair that I believe that I will leave this hotel with only one kidney. It’s due to my sick fantasy that I have come to the conclusion that human organs are for sale here next to the breakfast room.
Notwithstanding my guilt about my prejudices, I’ll try to avoid seeing the doctor.
Call me a narcissist, but I love both my kidneys.