Abstract
The article is part of the considerations in the field of cultural glottodidactics presenting two examples of didactic practice at the University of Paris: a short story From Darkness (Pol. Z ciemności) by Sławomir Mrożek and the film Day of the Wacko (Pol. Dzień świra) by Marek Koterski. The description of work on these cultural texts aims to show interpretative possibilities, limited due to the specificity of foreign studies, to a narrow or broader context of historical and intertextual references. It shows what elements of Polish culture are indispensable when transferring knowledge about it.