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The study examines the conception of space in the literary works of Richard Weiner (1884-1937), Vera Linhartová (*1938), and Daniela Hodrová (*1946). What unites them is the departure from concrete topographical, experiential space towards an abstract, topologically structured, and poetically transformed space. The work perceives topological space transformation as the exploration of new spatial qualities or as a possibility for a new spatial perception. The first analysis situates Richard Weiner's poetics of space within the modernist tradition and initially discusses self-techniques of spatial transformation. It then examines the transformation of nature description in Weiner's work, which arises from transformative experiences such as war and revolution. The second investigation focuses on Vera Linhartová, whose poetics of space was heavily influenced by Weiner. Her neo-avant-garde and simultaneously archaic poetics of space revolve around the possibility of adopting a new positionality, through which transcendent spatial qualities can be made visible. The third analysis examines Daniela Hodrová's trilogy as an example of her poetics of superimposition, manifested in the three novels through a complex topographical, organic, and geological motif of transformation. The starting point for the transformation and unfolding of historically superimposed layers of space are magical practices and physical actions. Finally, the study identifies developmental dynamic relationships of this constellation and proposes, based on the topological poetics of Weiner, Linhartová, and Hodrová, an interpretive framework with which topological poetics can be examined in further works, taking into account the categories of subjectivity, language, time, narrative form, and materiality.