This bronze monument is one of the best in Łódź (a big statement, considering the city is rife with monuments) because it honors one of Poland’s most heralded writers: Władysław Reymont. The author of Chłopi (The Peasants) and The Promised Land (which was about Łódź’s industrial history and the class struggles that arose from it in the early 20th Century) won the 1924 Nobel Prize for the former – just a year before he died.
The monument depicts Reymont sitting on a travel trunk and taking notes in front of Kindermann palace. It was unveiled in 2001 as part of a larger city project that started in 1999 to decorate the city with bronze sculptures of famous Łódź figures.
The monument – which weighs a jaw-dropping 300 kg – is a popular tourist attraction, not least because you can sit right next to Reymont and snap a photo.
