Дервишин, майко, къща не храни…
I’m telling you, my mother, a dervish does not provide for a family…

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers a possible literary-historical and semiotic-culturological interpretation of the image of the Dervish in the Bulgarian literature, an image that is exotic, mysterious as well as intriguing in its foreignness and otherness. The focus of the analysis is on the point of view of Hristo Brazitsov – a writer and a journalist, who is spiritually attached to Istanbul, the Orient and the ritual traditions of Eastern Dervish wisdom. At the same time, comments made by less familiar authors, such as P. Dachev, E. Mars, D. Bogdanov, and N. Kodov, are also taken into account. Their opinion on the censorship of the ancient Islam practice of the Dervishes-Mevlevi from the first years of the Turkish Republic meets in an interesting way the excitement and denial, the attraction and repulsion of the image of the Dervish in Bulgarian literature and journalism.

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