Artwork and life of the writer Rudolf Karel Zahálka

This bachelor's thesis mainly focuses on the artwork of the writer Rudolf Karel Zahálka. The introductory part briefly outlines the contemporary context of 1890s, which serves as a reference for following analyses. The major part of the thesis analyses the most important motifs and the choices of the topics Zahálka's short prose in comparison with texts by autors, who are classified to the similar literary direction. The last part contains a summary of all available data about life of this author and the concept of the book Kresby is also mentioned. The aim of this thesis is, based on the comparison with contemporary trends, to clarify particular vague ascpects of Zahálka's artwork, to characterize it appropriately and integrate it to the defined literaly-historical period