Wiktor's mother, Eufemia Maria (née Modzelewska), came from a Catholic Polish szlachta (nobility) family.

[1][2] There, his fascination with Igor Severyanin's Ego-Futurism started, followed by readings of Velimir Chlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexiey Kruchonykh's so-called Visual poems.

[2] In 1918 Jasieński arrived in Kraków, where he attended courses in Polish literature, law and philosophy at the Jagiellonian University and became active in the avant-garde circles.

In 1919, he became one of the founders of a club of Futurists named Katarynka (Barrel Organ), to suggest identification with the common people and anti-elitism of its members.

The same year he published a number of other works, including manifestos, leaflets, posters and various kinds of new art, formerly unknown in Poland.

That year Jasieński witnessed a workers' rebellion in Kraków, which prompted him to join the Polish communist movement.

He pursued library research on the 1846 peasant uprising of Jakub Szela in the Austrian Partition of Poland and on Polish folklore.

[1] In 1928, he serialised the work which secured his reputation, Palę Paryż ('I burn Paris'), a Futurist-Catastrophist novel depicting the collapse and decay of the city and social tensions within capitalist societies.

[2] It gained Jasieński much fame in France, but also became the main reason why in 1929 he was deported from the country, ostensibly for disseminating dangerous political propaganda.

By the mid-1930s, he became a strong supporter of Genrikh Yagoda's political purges within the writers' community; according to Wat, Jasieński was active in the campaign against Isaac Babel.

Sentenced to death by Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR on charge of participation in a counter-revolutionary terrorist organization on 17 September 1938 and executed the same day in Kommunarka shooting ground near Moscow as finally established in 1992.

Having eventually discovered his true origins, he adopted a Polish name and became active in dissident organizations opposing the communist regime.