Spatial Narrative and Writing About the Bosnian War in Stanišić’s Wie der Soldat das Grammophon Repariert

The novel Wie der Soldat das Grammophon repariert by Sasha Stanišić, a German-Bosnian writer, reflects the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The novel reconstructs the memory of war through spatial narrative and children’s perspective, and forms a unique style of writing about war through the overlap and movement of space. Through spatial structure and metaphorical rhetoric, the novel connects the daily life of the Yugoslav era with national memory and war trauma, and finds a unique language for remembering and writing about the Bosnian War. The Bosnian War described by Stanišić not only truly reveals the trauma caused by the war to civilians, but also provides an opportunity to reflect on the history of the Bosnian War, showing the writer’s political stance and highlighting the significance of war literature in evoking war memories and reflections through narrative.