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This article discusses Europeanization processes (that means adjustment to advanced western models) of Bulgarian culture and literature in the age of modernism. For Bulgarian society the Europeanization processes as an all-encompassing and demanding project generate many problems. During the age of modernism the debate centered on the opposition between traditional and modern, native – European, homely – foreign: a stronger Western orientation marked by a strong emphasis in on the Bulgarian national and identity. In this time appear inferiority complexes and serious difficulty in identifying cultural affiliation.