Editorial adaptations in current editions of Neruda's Povídky malostranské

In this thesis, we focus on the issue of editorial changes in the current editions of Jan Neruda's Povídky malostranské. The main corpus of the work consists of editions from 1954 (published by Mladá fronta), 2013 (published by Dobrovský), 2016 (published by Fortuna Libri), 2020 (published by Městská knihovna v Praze), 2021 (published by Dobrovský), and 2024 (published by CNC Books). We have also included an audiobook from 2015 (published by Socha). First, we present the theory of textology and editorial practice and the methodological basis for this work. We then continue with a presentation of Povídky malostranské and its individual editions. In the main analytical part, we compare these editions with the original edition, i.e., the 1885 edition (published by Ed. Valečka). The analysis, however, is limited to two selected short stories: Hastrman and U Tří lilií. Based on our analysis, we determine what specific changes have been made in the editions and also that most of the changes are in orthography and phonology, with the fewest in syntax. The changes are often inconsistent, and the main tendency of current editions is thus inconsistency. The text is often modernized and the orthography updated, probably with the aim of simplifying the text so that it is understandable to contemporary readers....