Texte remanié de: Habilitationsschrift--Philosophische Fakultät--Regensburg--Universität, 2005. / Bibliogr. p. 358-465.

The thesis deals with Jakub Demlʼs works published in newspapers, magazines and periodic anthologies. It offers a chronological review of this part of Demlʼs work and tries to establish its major periods based on its changes, considering also his books and life. The thesis also attends to the functions and genres of these texts, particularly in relation with the concept of journalism. It further examines selected affairs associated with Jakub Deml which are to be found in contemporary journals. The pivotal part of the thesis is a bibliography of all accessible texts which encompasses their latter editions and references to other related works and people. Key words: Jakub Deml, journalism, bibliography.

The diploma thesis titled Jakub Deml's Family in Miscellaneous Letters and in His Work encloses an edition of letters of the writer Jakub Deml (1878-1961), which were delivered from him to his family. The correspondence of the years 1902-1961 comprises 81 letters. The mail explains many events which took place in the author's life, and it elucidates also several facts enabling deeper understanding of his work. An edition commentary, list of the mail, name register and annotation is attached to the edition of the correspondence. The supplementary commentary introduces the most important members of the author's family, deals with the reflections of the characters of mother and sister Matylda in the work and describes the form of the two kinship chronicles: V Zabajkalí and Mohyla.

Notre thèse cherche à définir la relation entre la littérature et l’identité humaine, en quoi l’écriture permet de connaître et de former l’identité. Le point de départ de notre réflexion est l’interprétation de la relation entre l’homme et le monde par rapport à la conscience de sa propre visibilité. L’être humain ressent sa visibilité dans le monde comme une menace et comme quelque chose d’artificiel. L’être s’efforce de se créer selon sa propre imagination ou de devenir quelqu’un d’autre par l’intermédiaire de l’écriture, du déguisement et du masque,mais aussi en utilisant la langue comme un outil qui permet la connaissance de sa vraie nature. Stendhal fait figure de pionnier car il est fondateur de l’égotisme littéraire. Ceci à cause de son intérêt exclusif pour sa propre personne qui se manifeste par l’auto-connaissance et l’auto-construction. Ces approches de l’écriture et de la langue ont inspiré de nombreux écrivains et courants littéraires dont Jakub Deml qui en est l’héritier tchèque. L’auto-connaissance et l’auto-construction font partie intégrante de son oeuvre. Par la modification de sa propre identité, par l’intégration d’autrui dans son moi, Deml veut créer l’effet de „l’ubiquité éternelle“ pour influencer la réalité. L’exploration de soi est devenue l’intérêt principal de Henri Michaux. L’approche pratique de l’écriture comme moyen d’auto-connaissance ou de dissimulation, devient pour lui un instrument de survie. L’autocréation liée à l’utilisation pratique de la langue comme instrument servant à la vie permet de saisir la dépendance de l’identité humaine aux circonstances ce qui a pour effet que l’être humain perçoit son identité comme fragmentaire. / This work analyzes the relation of a text to one’s identity, to its understanding and to its formationthrough the written language. The relation man–world founded on the awareness of one’s visibility serves forthis analysis, which draws on a hypothesis that one’s visibility within the world is perceived as both a threatand as inauthentic. Human beings make effort to form themselves according to their own principles or tobecome someone else with literary text, to take on disguises and masks, but also to use language as a toolenabling them to uncover their authenticity. Such approach was represented by Stendhal’s work, the foundingstone of literary egotism. The reason is that he focuses exclusively on himself, which is manifested by a doublegesture: self-analysis and self-construction. These gestures, performed by the means of language, have aindirect successor in the work of Jakub Deml. In his texts self-analysis and self-construction can be recognized.By modifying his identity, mainly through the inclusion of other people within it, he attempts to create animpression of omnipresence for influencing reality. Henri Michaux establishes the exploration of his own self as the exclusive focus of his life. For him, it is crucial that the practical approach to a linguistic creation, an approach that consists in using language as a tool for either gaining self-knowledge or for hiding one’s self, be developed into one of the tools for survival. This link between self-creation, and the emphasis, put on apractical approach can capture human identity as something derived from situational circumstances. As a result, human beings perceive their own identity as fragmentary. / Práce si klade za cíl postihnout vztah literárního textu k lidské identitě, k jejímu poznání ijejímu formování pomocí psaného jazyka. Výchozí myšlenka se zakládá na výkladu vztahučlověka a světa s ohledem k vědomí vlastní viditelnosti. Dále vychází z hypotézy, že lidskábytost pociťuje svou viditelnost ve světě jako ohrožení na jedné straně a nepřirozenost nastraně druhé. Snahou této bytosti je se formovat podle vlastních představ či se stávat pomocítextu někým jiným, brát na sebe převleky a maskovat se, ale také používat jazyk jako nástrojdobrání se vlastní přirozenosti. Na počátku takového přístupu spočívá Stendhalovo dílo, kteréje považováno za zakladatele literárního egotismu. Důvodem je výhradní zájem jejího autorao svou osobu, který se projevuje ve dvojím gestu: sebepoznávacím i sebekonstrukčním. Obatyto přístupy k jazyku mají své pokračovatele v mnoha literaturách, jednou z nich je literaturačeská, v níž se objevuje dílo Jakuba Demla. I v něm lze snadno vyznačit gesto sebe-poznání isebe-konstrukce. Deml se modifikací vlastní identity, především začleňováním druhých lidído ní, pokouší vytvořit dojem „věčné všudypřítomnosti“. Její navození má být základem vlivuna skutečnost. Henri Michaux stejně tak učiní průzkum sebe sama za výhradní zájem svéhoživota. I pro něj je důležité, že se praktický přístup k jazykovému výtvoru, který je přítomnýv užití řeči jako prostředku sebepoznání či sebeskrytí, rozvine v jeden z nástrojů přežití.Spojení sebetvorby a akcentování praktického použití jazykového výtvoru jako nástrojesloužícího životu pak zachytí i odvození lidské identity od situačních okolností a okamžiků,což způsobí, že lidská bytost bude prožívat svou identitu jako fragmentární a nespojitou

The topic of this thesis (as its subtitle says) deals with the cultural and historical context of Jakub Deml's Image of Slovakia. In the first part, the author attempts to find his "own way" to Jakub Deml. In the second part, "Šlépěje" from the "Czechoslovakian era" are interpreted, i.e. IV.- VIII. These fall into the time period after the establishment of the Czechoslovakian Republic, Deml's meeting with Pavla Kytlicová, and his eventual settlement in his native city of Tasov (1919- 21). The third part offers a brief sketch of the cultural and historical context of the Czech-Slovak relationship, later also perceived from the Central European perspective. The fourth part initially uses two different examples to introduce the Image of Slovakia in Czech literature (Němcová, Kálal), and afterwards it turns to the literary analysis of Jakub Deml's Image of Slovakia. In the concluding chapter, this piece is set into the cultural and historical context and compared to other authors.

The thesis presents an edition of lettres by writer Jakub Deml (1878-1961) with his long- standing friend, priest Vladimír Evermod Balcárek (1885-1974). Their mutual correspondence from 1905 to 1959 on the one hand records a lot of events from poet's private life, on the other hand it is a source for deeper understanding of his works. The edition is completed by editorial comment, list of correspondence, name index and explanatory notes which purpose is to clearif further circumstances of the mentioned events. Additonal comments try to introduce the personality of addressee, Vladimír Evermod Balcárek and the two most dramatic events which are mentioned in the lettres. Key words correspondence - Jakub Deml - Vladimír Evermod Balcárek - Eliška Wiesenbergerová - Josef Florian - Otokar Březina - Roman Catholic Church

The diploma thesis deals with the interpretation of Deml's prose anthology Moji přátelé/My Friends from an intertextual viewpoint. The work is focused mainly on the reconstruction of My Friends' genesis and intertextual structures and on the interpretation of identified references, i.e. allusions and quotations. The thesis also explores Deml's vocabulary of flowers by reference to Biedermeier's work, it surveys repertoire of the main motifs and offers analysis of author's poetics. The work is also focused on Deml's specific dialogue.

In the days of normalization there was a lot of groups in Czechoslovakia which were spreading the literature, which couldnt be published in the state's publishers. Manuscripts VBF was one of them. This edition was different because it focused on publishing collected works of three authors, who had been already not alive. Manuscript VBF was established on the beginning of seventieths by Bedřich Fučík and Vladimír Binar to publish Jakub Deml's writtings. The Jakub Deml's writtings was orginized to fourteen volumes. Thirteen of them were being published since 1978 to 1983, the fourteenth one wasn't finished. Meanwhile the decision came to publish also Jan Zahradníček's writtings and Jan Čep's writtings. Vladimír Binar prepared Bedřich Fučík's writtings after Bedřich Fučík had died. There was a side product called Bibliotheca of Manuscripts VBF, in which some works of the organizators and their friends were published. The thesis includes an annotative bibliography of the edition and an interview with Vladimir Binar. The purpose of this thesis was to make a bibliography of Manuscripts VBF, compile information about this edition and add a worthful witness of one of its organizators - Vladimír Binar.

The objective of this work is to analyze the relation of a literary text to one's identity, to its understanding and to its formation through the written language. The relation between man and the world founded on the awareness of one's own visibility serves as the basis for this analysis. Further, the analysis draws on a hypothesis that one's own visibility within the world is perceived as both a threat and as something inauthentic. Thus, human beings make considerable effort to form themselves according to their own principles or to become someone else with the help of literary text, to take on various disguises and masks, but also to use language as a tool enabling them to uncover their own authenticity. On the onset, such approach was represented by Stendhal's work that is considered as the founding stone of literary egotism. The reason is that, in his work, Stendhal focuses exclusively on himself, which is manifested by a double gesture: self-analysis and self-construction. Both these gestures, performed by the means of language, have a number of successors in various literatures, including Czech literature and the work of Jakub Deml. In Deml's texts, too, the double gesture of self-analysis and self-construction can be recognized. By modifying his own identity, mainly through the inclusion of other...

The thesis contains an annotated edition of the letters of Jakub Deml (1878-1961) of his long- time friend and writer Jaroslav Durych (1886-1962). More than 150 letters and dozens of postcards document the relationship between the two writers in two periods (years 1906-1909 and 1916-1959). The first era of correspondence documents their translation cooperation and own production and views on contemporary literary and social conditions as well. The literary studies connected to the edition also describes two major differences between these creators. In the second period was the most intense correspondence in the twenties of the 20th century. The authors worked closely together and share in the correspondence also events of their personal lives. In 1931 My testimony about Otokar Březina caused a split among friends. Then the correspondence has never fully restored. The dispute was then moved to the pages of periodicals and books, about which one of the chapters of the study inform. The edition is accompanied by editorial comment, an inventory sheet, an index of names and explanations, in which the reader reads some of Durych's reactions and learn other relevant circumstances correspondence.