If Central Europe seems to be forgotten by the ‘West’, as the organizers of the conference state, Belarus – which geographically lays more or less in the middle of Europe – has been only scarcely considered by ‘Western’ scholarship and media. Nonetheless, the idea of Central (or Middle, a term used as a variation of the first) Europe is recurringly present in Belarusian discourses of self-identification: in Lukashenka’s (post-)soviet, neo-rusicist and authoritarian (re)vision of the country, Europe is the malum absolutum; in the oppositional, nativist, pro-European and democratic counternarratives, Belarus is presented as a country struggling to free itself from Russian linguistic and cultural colonialism and to go back to its ‘natural’ barycenter in Middle Europe. This idea has a strong impact on Belarusian literature and philosophy. In this frame, Ihar Babkoŭ’s essayistic reflections on Middle/Central Europe in Karaleŭstva Belarus’ (Kingdom of Belarus, 2005) and his literary (re)imagination of the region in the novel Adam Klakotski i iahonyia tseni (Adam Klakotski and His Shadows, 2001) are particularly important to understand the discourse on Central/Middle Europe in Belarus. In my paper, I will analyze the Central/Middle Europe idea in the two works and focus also on the author’s reception in Hungary as well as on the intersection between his vision of Central European Belarus and the discourses on Central Europe in Hungarian culture, underlining the productivity of Babkoŭ’s ideas for an interdisciplinary and transregional/transnational reflection.