The subject of this paper is syntactical decomposition of the tale Victory and the short story My Good Father written by a contemporary Croatian author Miro Gavran. The introductory part covers Miro Gavran`s literary creation, types of sentence structure according to different linguistic manuals and the study of syntax in the literary text. Sentences are analysed according to the types of sentences found in contemporary Croatian grammar books Croatian Grammar (Hrvatska gramatika) by Eugenija Barić et. al. (1995), Croatian Grammar for Secondary Schools and Universities (Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika za gimnazije i visoka učilišta) by Josip Silić and Ivo Pranjković (2005), Croatian language Grammar (Gramatika hrvatskoga jezika) by Stjepko Težak and Stjepan Babić (1996) and The Syntax of the Croatian Standard Language (Sintaksa hrvatskoga književnoga jezika) by Radoslav Katičić (2002). The aim of the paper is to provide an insight into syntactic features of the works of prose in question, that is, to explain to what extent certain sentence types, methods of sentence composition and connectives in a sentence level were used, as well as to analyse the function of a sentence as a stylistic unit through a quantitative syntactic decomposition. For a more relevant conclusion to be drawn regarding by Miro Gavran`s literary creation, the research should be expanded and a larger number of works included.