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While arguing with the critics who have interpreted Andrzej Stasiuk’s novel Dojczland quite one-sidedly, the essay’s author notices a few different reception styles which had been projected in the novel. He claims that the realistic interpretation, which is suggested by the icon from the book’s cover is rather absurd, and consequently prefers two other possible interpretations: grotesque-realistic on the one hand and genre-oriented on the other hand. He shows, that the author presents a phenomenon of a German from the perspective of a Polish Gastarbeiter, who is full of prejudices and fears as well as admiration for German civilisation. He also shows, that Stasiuk derisively falsifies the stereotypes in order to clash the Germans’ stereotypes about Poles and Poles’ stereotypes about Germans.