The novels The Damned Yard by Ivo Andrić and the Dogs in a Baazar of Ivan Aralica are examples of historical novels abounding in romanesque parables about the tyrannical authority and the relation of an ordinary man with ruling structures. In both novels it is about the times of Turkish power and the enormous political, religious, cultural and linguistic consequences that it has left. In Andrić's work, the historical framework concerns the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, while in the Aralice it is about the 16th century. The paper explores the very form, narrative, and purpose of the romanesque parables in these novels, with an emphasis on archetypal themes, especially on this specific and blazing relationship between power and the individual. Although both of these novels are about the past times, the described circumstances are, in essence, very actual and that is where the power of these novels precisely is. What is crucial to approaching both of these works is the fact that focus is shifted from "great history" and "great heroes" to "small stories", to the stories of the individual, the ordinary "little" man, who is becoming the central figure of the novel and the main hero of the story through which flow shows individual existence trapped and subordinated to the ruling forces and other historical events and phenomena that change and determine the destiny of an individual.