The head of the minotaur. Kraevsky M.

the city in which the Kra-Yevsky’s novel “The Head of the Minotaur” takes place, has not existed for a long time. There are houses, streets and squares. But there is no old Lviv, the Polish-Jewish pre-war Lviv. The Cosmopolitan City, where Polish, Austrian, Hungarian, Jewish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian customs were mixed in architecture and everyday life, in the menu and language, in the freedom and humor of the townspeople adequately related to themselves and the world. Today's mononational Lviv is a wonderful city. But the other. It is much more different from the former Lviv than the current Odessa from Odessa Babel. Marek Kraevsky accurately describes the interwar lions. All people mentioned in the novel (except, of course, the main characters) lived then in Lviv and were well known in Poland and Europe.