In this article we propose to achieve an imagological perspective of the representations of Bessarabia and Bessarabians in the literary creation of Ion Druţă. The instrument used is that of literary imagology, represented in our case by self-imagery created by a writer from the native community, to identify perceptual clichés, myths, literary tops, chronotopes, etc. related to Bessarabia and its inhabitants in a certain temporal sequence. We will try to capture some distinctive features of Bessarabians (moral, behavioral, physical portraits, clothing, nutrition, main occupations, etc.), which the writer highlights in some works, especially in his novel The burden of our goodness. Throughout his creation, Ion Druţă wrote sensitively, nicely, tenderly about Bessarabia and its inhabitants. We owe him the image of a Bessarabian by symbolic prism: modest, hospitable, helpful, patriot, householder, good and kind, peaceful, silent and sau benevolent.