The Tenement House in the City. Depictions of a multi-ethnic neighbourhood inselected Polish interwar novels

Abstract

The article analyses literary representations of relations between the inhabitants of tenement houseswho belong to different ethnic groups. Selected interwar novels by Henryk Drzewiecki, HalinaGórska, Marcelina Grabowska, Władysław Pawlak, and Andrzej Strug are discussed as literary insightsinto historical and social conditions of the neighbourly coexistence of ethnically mixed communities.