When a novelist became a character in his own story
Lviv, 1861. The young but already popular novelist Walery Łoziński walks around the city with a bandaged head, cheerfully telling his friends a strange story. Within days he will be dead, and all of Lviv will be talking about it.
What brought the twenty-four-year-old writer, nicknamed the ‘Dumas of Lviv’, to this end? And why did his life suddenly begin to resemble the plot of one of his own novels?
Sources
Валерій Лозинський. Заклятий двір 2025
С. Білостоцький, А. Козицький. Кримінальний світ старого Львова
Głos 05.02.1861
Józef Białynia Chołodecki. Z cyganeryi lwowskiej przed pół wiekiem: (1861-1863)
Karol Estreicher, Zapiski, luty 1861
W blasku pióra i szabli. Kurier Galicyjski 2013 #189-190
What brought the twenty-four-year-old writer, nicknamed the ‘Dumas of Lviv’, to this end? And why did his life suddenly begin to resemble the plot of one of his own novels?
Sources
Валерій Лозинський. Заклятий двір 2025
С. Білостоцький, А. Козицький. Кримінальний світ старого Львова
Głos 05.02.1861
Józef Białynia Chołodecki. Z cyganeryi lwowskiej przed pół wiekiem: (1861-1863)
Karol Estreicher, Zapiski, luty 1861
W blasku pióra i szabli. Kurier Galicyjski 2013 #189-190