POLITIKA OKA U KOMEDIJI BALKANSKI ŠPIJUN DUŠANA KOVAČEVIĆA
Date
2019
Authors
Zivkovic, Ana
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University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Philology and Arts
Abstract
Тhis paper interprets the structural elements in Dušan Kovačević’s comedy The Balkan
Spy. The logistics of perception is examined applying political theory. This affects the development
of comediographic actions and characters. The results show that a unique and „natural”
human eye decomposes by technical effects and materials for observation and detection
(camera, spyglass, projector, glasses). Since the effect of the real is constructed with various eye
prostheses, Ilija Čvorović testifies about contemporary experience of a subject – anatomical
abolition of eyes. The recorded photographs stop time and diminish sensual temporality of a
witness. The acceptance of artificial reconstruction of an eye opens the space for logistics of
perception not only in art, but also in law, medicine or journalism. Judging by contemporary
literary and cultural theories, comic worlds are modeled resembling "war" or "explicit" models
of reality, hence we conclude that The Balkan Spy reconsiders important scientific paradigms
which stem back from the time of the French Revolution.
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Dušan Kovačević, "The Balkan Spy", drama, politics, perception, comedy