ULOGA FOTOGRAFIJE U ROMANU ALEKSANDRA HEMONA PROJEKT LAZARUS

Abstract

How the same trauma can mark a different experience, as well as the responses to it, is shown by Alexander Hemon’s novel The Lazarus Project. Analyzing this work by means of a medium whose usage expansion develops in the era of both wars, we will explain how an investigation, which follows biblical deconstruction and panopticon surveillance, can be carried out by means of photography. We will confirm that this novel is a kind of a project by reading the destinies that try to resurrect again, in order not to get the deserved justice. Referring to the interpretations of Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Paul Virilio, Walter Benjamin, and Michel Foucault, the paper will present the perspective of an anarchist and modern Lazarus, who goes back to the past and disappearance through the path of neglecting the experience of alienation, trauma and death, control and re-education, with the desire and impossibility of realization. The novel, which is created as a combination of text accompanied by images, is viewed in this paper as two parallel diaries, written with codes that need to be encoded.