During the late 1960s a group of young authors occured in Croatian literature – the so-called fantastičari (fantastic writers); it included Pavao Pavličić (b. in Vukovar, Croatia, in 1946). In his essay "Astrolab za hrvatske borgesovce" (1972) Branimir Donat called those authorsBorgesians pointing out the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges as the key and model author in forming the prose of this group of Croatian writers. However, Pavao Pavličić, like most fantastic writers, disassociates himself from the Borgesian label and neglects the influence of Borges on his, Pavličić's prose. Therefore, this work tries to show similarities (the gradual introduction of strange elements, reductiveness, pandeterminism and metaphysical analogy at the thematic level, secret connectivity between everything in the world, sudden reversal, language as a theme, intertextuality) and differences in the prose of Pavao Pavličić and Jorge Luis Borges by analyzing Pavličić's novels Lađa od vode (1972) and Koraljna vrata (1990) and Borges' most famous collection of short stories Fictions (1944) and The Aleph (1949).