Novel „Miris, zlato i tamjan“ is one of the best anthological works of contemporary croatian literature. As such, it is an inexhaustible source of different interpretations. Due to the different issues it discusses the way how it achives, it is a motivaton topic of school interpretation. That is why this paper, in addition to presenting scientific interpretitions of this novel, deals with its school interpretiton, theoretically and through the concrete preparation of a literature lesson. The paper is conceived in seven chapters with subchapters. The first part of the paper refers to the theoretical part, to getting to know the author and the novel from perspective of contemporary literary scholars and to defining metodical concepts and features necessary for understanding and methodical approach to the novel. The second part of this paper brings concrete preparation for the literature lesson and one of the possible methodological approaches to the novel „Mirisi, zlato i tamjan“ through eight stages of an interpretation lesson.