The Prose by Otakar Batlička and Its Critical Feedback in a Context of Development of Czech Adventurous Literature

The diploma thesis Otakar Batlička's prosaic writings and its critical feedbacks in the context of Czech adventure literature focus on a development of the Czech adventurous literature and on Batlička's texts which were published at first in the teenage magazine Mladý hlasatel during the World War the Second. After his dead were published not only in magazines for teenagers (Pionýrská stezka, Sedmička pionýrů aj.), but also in book anthologies of Batlička's stories (from 60's). Batlička's stories are specified by their short extent, terse plot, punchline of the story, the absence of female characters and they take place mostly in exotic parts of the South America. The thesis mentions also critical feedbacks published in magazines Zlatý máj, Červený květ, Literární noviny, Ostravský kulturní zpravodaj, Hlas revoluce etc. and refers to illustrators of the Batlička's stories. The thesis thinks about a position of adventure literature in a context of nowaday book production for children and teenagers and for this decade of 21st century are typical mainly novels about post-apocalyptic vision of fictional future world. Narrations from exotic setting are not so atractive maybe because of too easy accessibility of far regions for contemporary man, the absence of secret and commercialization of the mentioned..