Abstract
At the end of the 19th century, the biblical figure of Salome became a prototype of femme fatale, a beautiful, seductive but cruel woman. In the fin de siècle period, the position of women in society is changing, and these changes are also reflected in the depiction of literary characters; a woman is no longer just an object, but becomes a mover of action, disregarding convention and at least to a limited extent deciding on her fate and the fate of the men surrounding her.
The chapter deals with the motif of Salome, her seductive dance and the death of John the Baptist in the texts of Hispano-American modernists R. Darío and E.
Gómez Carrillo and the Czech author Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic.