The dissertation analyses the prose work of the contemporary Serbian writer David Albahari starting from the thesis that his oeuvre reveals doubt in any discursively based reality, regardless of the socio-political actuality. We observe that the problem relation between history and literature as narrative discourses presents a poetical and content-related continuity at the level of the oeuvre and that the representation and favouring of historical, political, cultural and social topics in the critical reception is a product of the reader’s time configuration and not of the meaning which explicitly and clearly arises from the literary text. The research proceeds by considering the doubt in occupying the real and the factual with language and thus focuses on analysing the narrator’s language activity, narrative identity and plot based on Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical theory of narration, its critical stance towards the structuralist analysis and the concept of identity as a dynamic and incomplete coming-into-being. Favouring and interpreting the pronounced metafictional dimension of Albahari’s literary texts show that their referential dimension is systematically brought into question and that this subversive strategy is a precondition to narration understood as a creative activity and a precondition to reading understood as a re-creation of a text. The dissertation proposes a new reading of Albahari’s oeuvre through the formation of a literarytheoretical framework which should synthesize the poetical and content-related preoccupations of literary texts and the consideration of the relation between literature and historiography as narrative discourses, placing at its centre the reading which articulates and concretizes the story. The proposed reading is expected to contribute to a substantial and systematic insight into the prose work of David Albahari, as well as to the critical evaluation of its poetic continuity in relation to the corresponding literary phenomena in modern literature.