Typology of Characters in Jaroslav Hašek's Short Stories in the Context of Czech Short Story Writing at the Beginning of the 20th Century

This master's thesis focuses on the short stories of Jaroslav Hašek, which were printed during his lifetime, from the perspective of the typology of characters that appear in Hašek's short stories. Attention is paid to characters that deviate from the generally accepted norms of the time. The short stories are also analyzed from the perspective of the use of means that induce a comic effect in readers. The comparison of Jaroslav Hašek's short stories with the short stories of specific authors, who published approximately at the same time as Jaroslav Hašek, forms the last area of the thesis.