The study pursues the process of the Czech Modernism development at the end of the 19th century, observing three streams of thought: realism, progressive movement and modernist literature, whose interconnection in various configurations created the specific shape of the emerging modernism. The well-known "Czech Modernism" proclamation of October 1895 completed the constitutive process and at the same time it was its epitaph. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou
This paper reflects upon the literary genre of memoirs, their typological differentiation and their specific source value. It also refers to the unique historical testimony of poetry, which directly reflects the events of the period and the atmosphere which they bring about, as well as presenting a certain "reading of history".