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The author presents an in-depth interpretation of Tadeusz Różewicz’s Bulgarian Mosaic. It uses references to imagism and various poetic strategies and attempts to sketch out the cultural space in which Różewicz moves. An encounter with Otherness, with the Other which/who can be neither reached nor fully apprehended is brought to the foreground. The author observes how Różewicz presents his reckoning of the topos of Bulgaria (“small shells”, “red wine”), and the number of cultural contexts to which the poet refers, while he lays his Mosaic. The author concludes that it is not only a problem of negating the fixed, usually deceptive stereotypes, but above all the negating a “vision of Bulgarianness”, which was introduced to the Polish culture.