PROSTOR(I) ŽIVLJENJA I NARATIVIZACIJA PROŠLOSTI U PROZI ALEKSANDRA HEMONA
LIVING SPACE(S) AND THE NARRATIVIZATION OF PAST IN THE PROSE OF ALEKSANDAR HEMON

Summary/Abstract: The conditions of migrations, exile and occupying the state of otherness (Mario Cesareo) can hyperbolize the processes of past review and are able to create a nostalgic discourse about it. The position of placement into the space of a foreign frame, be it a cultural, political or ethnic one, appears as a peculiar “memory trigger”. Being at the border represents a parallel possibility of objecting to the new “homeland” and in retrospect creating a nostomanic discourse which has a “disturbing” view of the previous living space. In its simplified and adapted interpretation, it can be read as an emotional metonym in Hemon’s stories and novels thematizing the Socialist system. Hemon’s “nostalgic” does not suffer so much about the patria, but gives a disturbing account of his story as an antipode to the official historical one. Even the placement of the story back into childhood does not reveal (exclusively) positive aspects of living, but has as its aim the revelation of the ideology of the former common life (regime), pointing at (calling out) its “dark places” and “blind spots”.

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