In this work we will examine both the selected poetry of Dževad Karahasan (Duvno, 1963.), as well as questions of authorship, the identity of his characters, and narrative particularities. The introduction will explore the theoretical framework, i.e. the author’s opus as generally situated in Bosnian and Herzegovinian literature, together with modern poetics and Orientalism, along with postmodern tendencies. The most important characteristics of Karahasan’s writing are: new methods of narration, creating settings and his longing for the Other, mixing genres (also known as polygenrical politics); his essays and memoirs, as well as a type of “dramatisation of poetry”. In the main body of text is an analysis of Karahasan’s essay The Book of Gardens /About The Fear and Language, which will serve as a fine introduction for our examination of his novel The Ring of Shahrijar and his trilogy Stories from the Ashes (we have chosen the novels The Seed of Death and The Smell of Fear in particular). Here an emphasis will be placed on the themes of memory and the narration style, the issues that the characters are concerned with, knowledge and the relationships between individuals, and finally on Karahasan’s wish of establishing a dialogue with his readers. The final part of this thesis deals with, alongside an examination of the chiefly philosophical discourse that is present in all of the works, questions of identity, fictitious author and dissecting the narration.