EN
The following components participate in the composition structure od Mácha’s novel: protagonist title, motto (from Polish poets), significant day (Jewish Sabbath), anagnorisis, the background of nature (storm), auxiliary character, auxiliary prop (letters), miles gloriosus and situational framework. A thematic, semantic and compositional axis is created by a stone, around which the crucial actions of the novel take place. At the end of the study K. H. Mácha is compared to his German contemporary Clemens Brentano.