The paper is based on a strict distinction between the notion of a person referred to by a fictional name, as uttered within a text of narrative fiction, and the notion of a fictional character. The literary functions of such a text require the reader to interpret the occurences of a fictional name as records of utterances of that name by the narrator, referring to that individual which has been assigned that name at the beginning of the chain to which these utterances belong. This, according to the author’s view, provides proper basis also for interpretation of various kinds of extratextual use of fictional names. A literary character is, on the contrary, an element of a construction of a literary work and is identified by a set of requirements (e.g. of the kind mentioned above) imposed by the text’s literary functions on the reader. The author attempts to justify the assumption that the referential function of fictional names so understood is to be interpreted as directed to the actual world (rather than to an artificial world created by the writer), to specify the (rather limited) role reserved for pretense within this approach, to explain the implications of this account of fictional characters for the dispute between realists and anti-realists in this field etc, Článek je založen na striktním rozlišení mezi pojmem osoby, na kterou se odkazuje fiktivní jméno, jak je uvedeno v textu narativní fikce, a pojmem fiktivní povahy. Literární funkce takového textu vyžadují, aby čtenář interpretoval výskyty fiktivního jména jako záznamy o projevech tohoto jména vypravěčem, odkazující na toho jednotlivce, kterému bylo toto jméno přiděleno na začátku řetězce, ke kterému tato slova patří . To podle názoru autora poskytuje náležitý základ i pro interpretaci různých druhů extratextuálního použití fiktivních jmen. Literární charakter je naopak prvek konstrukce literárního díla a je identifikován souborem požadavků (např. Výše zmíněného druhu), které kladou literární funkce textu na čtenáře., and Petr Koťátko
In this short paper, I focus on several properties of the so-called Hybrid View of Fictional Characters. First, I present the theory to be discussed. Subsequently, I present several remarks on the consequences of the theory, mainly the problem of identifying fictional characters and the problem of modal properties of sentences containing fictional names.