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Social, family and interpersonal relationships in Hálek's late prose
Matušková, Kateřina ; Vaněk, Václav (advisor) ; Merhaut, Luboš (referee)
This thesis presents an analysis of three rural prose works by Vítězslav Hálek from the peak period of his work, Na statku a v chaloupce (1871), Na vejminku (1873) and Pod pustým kopcem (1874). It focuses both on placing these stories in the overall context of Hálek's work and on analysing the general transformation of the author's short story output. Short stories are present throughout Hálek's creative career, however its final phase marks a change in the author's poetics, the protagonists and their surroundings become more thoroughly rendered, and the social issues of the contemporary village are more prominently thematised. The thesis analyses Hálek's fictional worlds through his literary characters, based on their position within the family or village collective, their age, and their function in the texts. The final chapter is devoted to space-time as a category closely linked to literary characters. Key words: Vítězslav Hálek; Na statku a v chaloupce; Na vejminku; Pod pustým kopcem; rural prose; short story
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