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“Hospitality” serves as a metaphor for a writer's reception in a foreign culture. This text focuses on the theme of the reception of Georgi Gospodinov's work in Poland, as well as on a form of social communication through literary works. Reception understood as hospitality includes translators, authors, researchers and journalists who play a decisive role in the promotion of books. Hospitality as such is dependent on the strategic role of cultural institutions supporting literature. ‘Media' and informal contacts between the authors themselves also play an important role. This text examines the works of Georgi Gospodinov, winner of the Angelus Central European Literary Award, and that of the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The examination is taken in the light of the theory of communication in the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's “field of culture”.
