Zoppot / Sopoty. The unobvious dialectic of (temporary) neighbourhood (writingsby Stanisław Dygat)

Abstract

The subject of this article is the non-obviousness of the holiday neighbourhood of Polish visitorsand German hosts in Sopot in the fi rst decades of the 20th century, especially in the interwarperiod. Admittedly, this was a temporary neighbourhood, but its context was obviously the historicalneighbourhood of the two nations. The crucial question, then, is: what is the result of the particularintermingling of these two communities? The answer to it must take into account the history of twentieth-century Sopot. Stanisław Dygat’s writings – selected novels, short stories and columns – serveas a literary illustration of the phenomenon.