Šrámek (Krška): "Stříbrný vítr" on a Silver Screen

in English In my bachelor thesis I compare the novel Stříbrný vítr1 by Czech author Fráňa Šrámek with the movie adaptation made by Czech filmmaker Václav Krška. The most important aspects of Šrámek's novel are: disrupted composition, poetic language and the subject perspective of the main character Jan Ratkin. The composition is formed by the crucial points of the life of Ratkin during his growing up. Šrámek's poetic language is full of metaphors, metonymies and personifications. The most important stylistic feature of the text is its subjectivisation which is used to express the shifts of the mood of the main character. The main topic of the novel is the youth and how it is changed on its way to adulthood. The name of the novel "Stříbrný vítr" is a metaphor for the longing of the main character, who longs to revolt, to love and to know the world. The filmmaker Václav Krška altered both the story and the whole message of Šrámek's piece of art. Krška changed the time frame from thirteen years to one year, therefore the main story is no longer about Ratkin's growing up, but it depicts one year of his almost adult life. Another change was to focus on the love motive while neglecting other motives e.g. Ratkin's revolts and his effort to evolve both sexually and spiritually. The main story is therefore..