Reflection of real life in works of Jiří Orten

This bachelor thesis is focused on reflection of real life in works of Jiří Orten. It analyses three types of resources: biographical data, diaries of Jiří Orten and his poetry, especially poetry collections Ohnice and Elegie. From the short life of the poet, the focus is oriented on those facts which might have been crucial for Orten's works: the death of his father, emigration of his brother and unfulfilled relationship with Věra Fingerová. In the last part of the thesis, Orten's experience with the era of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is described. It intensively shaped his personality, because he was Jewish. The analysis of the literary and non- literary texts confirmed that the objective world of empirical author gets nearest to the inner world of lyrical subject in the reflection of loss of Orten's brother, Ota Ornest. The death of Eduard Ohrenstein is not a fundamental inspirational source and the motives of love are mostly presented in the sense of loss, therefore it is not easy to refer to particular relationship peripeties with Věra Fingerová. The diaries of Jiří Orten oscillate between fictional and factual literature. As a consequence, it is very difficult to recognize autobiographical entries. The question is, if the term "diary" is a correct one. The fact that Orten..