The construction of Leskovarian characters, or the representation of their typology, and the comparison of the construction of male and female characters in Misao na vječnost, Katastrofa, Propali dvori, and Sjene ljubavi, and the possibility of relating said constructions with author's own poetic is the point of this final thesis. Namely, the talent, labour, technique and complete devotion to work is what made Janko Leskovar one of the most important writers of croatian modernism. Occupied with the analysis of human psyche, influenced by the time he was living in and by everything else which aroused his inner turmoil, Leskovar's works display a slightly pessimistic vision of the world, in which life is a game of major forces, while humans are eternal prisoners of their own thoughts. With such outlook, while also imitating the writings of domestic tradition (Gjalski), russian literature (Turgenjev) and german philosophers (Schopenhauer), Leskovar constructs characters know as “Leskovarci”, or Leskovarian characters, distorting previous literature. Even in his first published work, Misao na vječnost, author’s attempt to explain his characters’ actions using psychological arguments is noticed. Therefore, the emphasis progresses from social problems to psychoanalysis and introspection of characters. And exactly those are some of the most important modernist characteristics found in Leskovar’s Misao na vječnost, Katastrofa, Propali dvori and Sjene ljubavi. Along with those, some realist features are also noticed in the works, but secondary to modernist ones.