The topic of this final work is short story Embranchment by Ranko Marinković. At the very beginning, Ranko Marinković's life and work will be presented with a special focus on the novellas and collection of short storys Hands, in which the Embranchment is published. In the central part, a short story will be analyzed and multiplicity of the interpretations will be addressed. The first part will be the reference layer of the short story and will briefly recount the fable, characterize the characters of the short story and draw attention to the importance Marinković attaches to the language. The second part will discuss the importance of the symbols in Embranchment, the allegorical interpretation of the short story, the importance that Marinković attaches to reality and art, and to present Embranchment as the short story that shows author in the process of creating a literature. This brings us to the third layer, which is a '' literature about literature''. If we look at the work in this context, we come to the conclusion that Embranchment is a modernist type of prose. Through the chapter on the elements of modernism in this short story, it will briefly summarize the whole work and make a conclusion.