Abstract

The study analyses the circumstances of the usage of the expression “interior vision” in the critical and artistic discourse of the Czech fin-de-siècle literature. The first part of the study explores the contextual changes of this metaphorical expression and reflects the evidence it gives about a human being’s “anchoring” in one’s body and deals with the relation between the so called “interior vision” in the art of the turn of 19th and 20th century, the term intuition and the intuitive cognition. The centre of the study is the analysis of the selected works of the modern Czech artists F. X. Šalda, Julius Zeyer, František Bílek, Otokar Březina and Miloš Marten.