In this thesis, the novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvin If on a winter’s night a travelerand the novel by the Croatian writer Pavle Pavličić Večernji akt were analyzed and compared. The introductory part of the thesis discussed the terms postmodern and postmodernism and what they mean. The term postmodern denotes a socio-historical epochand it begins with the transition of society to the post-industrial era, which brought many changes compared to previous periods, while postmodernism is spoken of as a literary period, an epoch. While modernismwas striving forinnovation and originality, in postmodernismartists play with different periods and styles. A special chapter is dedicated to postmodernism in Croatian literature. Postmodernism in Croatian literature appeared in the early 1970s with the appearance of "fiction writers" or "Borgesians", one of the most prominent Croatian writers of postmodernism is certainly Pavao Pavličić. The creation of a new reality, an escape into the unreal and the world of imagination, the thematization of the mystical and bizarre is what characterizes postmodernist Croatian literature, and these characteristics are also visible in the analyzed novel Večernji akt. Analysis of the novel If on a winter’s night a travelerand Večernji aktare based on postmodernist procedures that have been singled out from various sources, including:literature byZdenko Lešić Teorija književnosti(2008), David LodgeModes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy and Typology of Modern Literature (1977) and Dubravka Oraić TolićCitatnost u književnosti, umjetnosti i kulturi(2019). Analysis of the novel If on a winter’s night a travelerand Večernji aktare based on postmodern procedures: “disappearance of the real", "self-referentiality", "hybridity", "intertextuality", "contradiction", "permutation", "interrupted sequence", "coincidence" , "excess", "short circuit".