Надзирање као метод истраге и (ре)конструкције стварности у новели Налог Фридриха Диренмата
Surveillance as a Method of Investigation and (Re)construction of Reality in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Novella The Assignment

Summary/Abstract: This paper provides an insight into constituting an investigation and the nature of its relation with the reality in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s novella The Assignment. It examines the way in which character F. creates the reality by conducting an investigation – at first by searching for the truth by means of a biographic method, by interpreting the diaries, photographs, and notes of Tina von Lambert, and then by moving through staged realities, which raises the issue of who is really conducting the investigation: character F. or an instance of power. It points to concerns with regard to the border between the truth and fiction and to various aspects of cognition embodied in Polyphemus, a cameraman and a logician, and his assistant, Achilles, as well as to the possibility of findings of the investigation being manipulated depending on the point of view. Thus, an important role in the novella is given to surveillance as a method of monitoring, controlling, and creating the reality, with the author relying on Foucalt’s theory of power and surveillance as the starting point of her research.

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