ФУНКЦИЈА МОТИВА ФОТОГРАФИЈЕ У НАРАТИВНОЈ СТРУКТУРИ РОМАНА ЗОРАНА ЖИВКОВИЋА ТУМАЧ ФОТОГРАФИЈА
FUNCTION OF THE MOTIF OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE NOVEL THE INTERPRETER OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZORAN ŽIVKOVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the various ways in which the motif of photography is functionalized in the novel by Zoran Živković. Moving gradually through the chapters of the novel and dealing with individual characters, the author will show how photography is structured into the narrative of the novel. Taking into consideration the views of Roland Barthes and Walter Benjamin about the function of photography in modern times, we shall analyse the significance that this motif obtains in Živković's novel, as well as the role that photography gets in the real-fantastic world of his characters. The aim of the paper is to determine the way in which photography changes its function in the contemporary age, as well as the degree of its adaptation to other structural elements of fantasy in the novel. The results of the research show that Živković plays in a specific way with the real and imaginative possibilities of photography in order to convincingly show (seemingly) ordinary people of the modern age and to dissect their weaknesses and troubles. The novel shows a reality in which loneliness, fear, and the sense of alienation are all woven into everyday life, but by changing the functions of the motif of photography, the author manages to relieve such a reality of even the tiniest notions of the pathetic.

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