The article examines the prosaic works of Ladislav Dvořák (1920–1983), specifically the collection of
short stories entitled Šavle meče. It analyses the construction of Dvořák’s texts with regard to their
significant aspect, the connection between reality and the world depicted in the narrative. It argues
against the approach that take the stories as a source for study of the author’s biography and reverse
the relation, thus the author’s life is merely a basic material for constructing the literary universe.
The analysis is based on the theories of Přemysl Blažíček and Milan Jankovič, who treat the specifics
of creating meaning in literature. With the help of the concept of ‘objectivity’, adapted for literary
interpretation, the role of facts, description and narrator in the text is explored. The study concludes
that the meaning in the short stories of Ladislav Dvořák is created mainly by situatedness of
the narrator, whose goal is to mediate his own life experience in the process of its formation and its
indefiniteness.
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