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The space in Horacio Quiroga's short stories
Merhautová, Eva ; Poláková, Dora (advisor) ; Škodová, Denisa (referee)
( in English) The aim of this Bachelor's thesis is to describe the category of space in Horacio Quiroga's short novel. Above all, it focuses on the creation of so-called jungle tales and its particular environment. The first part is theoretical and tries to sum up the most important facts of the author's life and creation and it is followed by the part summarizing various information about the theory of the concept of space in literature. A special chapter is dedicated to (the) a term "topos", which is appllied to the hispanoamerican literature and to the generation of regionalism, especially to the novel of the jungle. The work continues with the a practical analysis of the short stories. It describes the comparison of expressions of Quiroga's different styles and the image of the province of Misiones, where the author lived for a long time and which remains captured in his works. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on the influence of the environment of the jungle on the characters and what kind of characters it creates. It finishes with the image of the jungle as a sacred place.

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