The aim of the thesis was to explore the role of explicitation as a potential parameter of individual literary translator's style, on the material of a parallel corpus of texts compiled for this purpose and covering the work of two translators along the temporal axis. The empirical study the results of which are presented in the thesis was based on the assumption that literary translators, too, are characterized by individual styles, i.e. regularities of their translation decisions typical of their work and distinguishing them from other translators (see e.g. Baker 2000). Another assumption was that explicitation, as a phenomenon studied so far especially as a potential translation universal, has also individual aspects, i.e. that by comparing the explicitation behaviours of several translators components of that behaviour contributing towards individual translator's style can be identified. Either of the two translators being compared, Radoslav Nenadál and Antonín Přidal, was represented in the corpus by 5,000-word samples of parallel text, taken from 9 translations of long literary fiction, published in the course of their translator's careers. For the purpose of this analysis a new typology of translation-inherent explicitation (and implicitation) was developed, based on the concept of metafunctions of...