RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 Sládek, Ondřej T1 Literary rendez-vous with Zdeněk Rotrekl or A few remarks on Jiří Zizler's book The Aristocrat of the Catacombs JF Bohemica Olomucensia YR 2023 VO 15 IS 1 SP 104 OP 114 DO 10.5507/bo.2023.006 UL https://bohemica.upol.cz/artkey/boh-202301-0006.php AB The main topic of the study is a critical consideration of the analytical and interpretative methods used by the literary historian and critic Jiří Zizler in his monograph on the poet Zdeněk Rotrekl - The Aristocrat of the Catacombs. Towards the Life and Work of Zdeněk Rotrekl (2021). The study demonstrates that Zizler's book is the result of the combination of several approaches: the literary-critical, historical, and comparative, as well as the structural, phenomenological, and hermeneutical. One must also add the method of close reading, which Zizler uses to create his interpretive models.