Interpretation of Diaries by Karel Poláček and Jiří Orten

The bachelor´s thesis is focused on the interpretation of diaries of two Jewish authors - Karel Poláček and Jiří Orten. It is divided into four parts. The first part presents a methodology, on which is the thesis based and talks about an issue of a diary as an autobiographical genre. It works with terms autobiography, authenticity, and constructed stylization of the author's subject. The second part describes the historical context of the period of Jewish persecution based on specialist literature. Both third and fourth parts are focused on Karel Poláček and Jiří Orten and the interpretation of their diaries. The aim of this thesis is to introduce the diary with a focus on author's subject and point out its historical and rhetorical character as well