Abstract
A lot of literary works have been written on the Sarajevo massacre, one of the biggest massacres of the 20th century. Those literary works reproduced a story of human tragedy on an esthetics level while they were discussing the massacre in Sarajevo about social and individual sides. In this study, Bosnian author and critic Dzevad Karahasan’s “Sara ve Serafina”, which was published in 1999 and discusses the Sarajevo war, is examined. There is not an any academic paper in Turkish on the novel translated in 2018. For this reason, we think this study will contribute both to increasing the apparency of Karahasan in scientific activities in Turkey and following contemporary literature works produced in the Balkans. In this study, the novel is examined in terms of its perspective on the war and how it sees the war through individuals' experiences. Bosnian cultural elements in the novel are also discussed to their functions. The novel, creating a discussion ground for Karahasan’s views on identity and sense of belonging, is examined by dual reading by the way of locality and otherness.