An Own Novelette With Authorial Commentary

This thesis consists of two main parts: the first is author's own novellete and the second is an essay which describes mainly the process of a creation of the story. By using literary-theoretical perspective the essay thus tries to uncover and analyse the problems a writer deals with during his work; it analyses the changes, which were effectuated by author in order to attain his original intentions. In particular, the essay focuses on questions such as: finding the suitable subject for the story; portraying the characters and pointing the conflict between them; constructing the sujet and spatiotemporal relations. It is also higly focused on a questions linked to autobiography, on the transformation of an authobiographical story to a fictious story. At the conclusion the essay responds to the reviews on the long-short story; the author evaluates himself as a creative personality and thinks of a practical use of the experience acquired through the writing of a literary work in teaching the Czech language and literature at school