The Crime in the Czech Novel in the 90th of the 19th Century.

The aim of the Diploma thesis is to examine diverse modes of fictional depiction of crime. The thesis demonstrates the basic genre differentiation of this specific theme using the suggested corpus of selected canonical literary works. This diachronic overview is accompanied by the synchronic research which focuses on the occurrence of crime in the context of Czech literary production of the 1890s. In the second part of the thesis, the particular features of crime-based literature are presented on the example of Czech novel which was published during this selected period - Kalibův zločin by Karel Václav Rais. In this section, both period and recent critical reception of Kalibův zločin is discussed and its publication frequency presented. The subsequent part of the thesis deals with comparative analysis of Kalibův zločin and Crime and Punishment by Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij which is based on selected narratology reference books. Based on this narrative comparison, the thesis exposes structural and narrative diversity concerning literary portrayal of crime