The methodology is one of the younger scientific disciplines that was created in the second half of the twentieth century. The subject of its study is the transfer of contents into the educational process. Accordingly, the methodology of literature has a task to enable students to enter the world of literature. A methodical approach to the literary work is very important, because its adaptation to the educational process prepares the conditions for an effective encounter of students with a literary work. The aim of this paper is to present one of methodical approaches to novel The Springs of Ivan Galeb by Vladan Desnica, and to point out the importance of its constituents in the system of school interpretation that includes eight teaching stages. The novel is placed in a methodical model of complete interpretation, ie complete processing. After the experiencecognitive motivation, the announcement of the text and its localization and interpretative reading, as well as after taking an emotional break and revaluating one's impressions, more possibilities are proposed. The complete interpretation covers all levels of the novel: thematically-conceptual, fabulatively-compositional, characters, language and style, literary form features. Special attention is given to the main character since it contains the whole issue of the work. In this way, sociological, psychological, philosophical and ethical characterisation of Ivan Galeb is presented. Also, because of its stratification, the novel opens the possibilities of intersubject correlation with the sociology, psychology, ethics, philosophy, music and art teaching.