This final work deals with the symbolistic novelistic literature of Antun Gustav Matoš. In the introductory part of the work, the novelistic opus of Matoš is presented so as to provide a basic comprehension of the symbols found in his novellas. Therefore, the objective of this work was to investigate symbols found in the novellas Mouse (Miš), Balcony (Balkon) and Crossroads Flower (Cvijet sa raskršća) and the way by which they are implemented in his works. Besides his novelistic opus, the author’s biography as well as his high aesthetic principles must be taken into account. Following the analysis of the chosen symbolistic novellas, this work came to the conclusion that the mouse in Matoš’s eponymous novella symbolizes the guilty conscience of the main character, while in the novella Balcony, the presence of different symbols comes to illustrate the collapse of love’s idealistic perception on both real and imaginary levels. It is of great importance to stress the fact that in this novella, topics related to love appear along animal figures, in this case dog’s barking, which represent the decay of love’s idealistic depiction. The last novella Crossroads Flower (Cvijet sa raskršća) already in the title offers a symbolistic interpretation and the further analysis in this work stresses the concept of subjective “wandering” as well as the symbol of the flower and the whiteness motivation.