Dragi Mihajlovski was noticed first of all by his books of short stories and he managed to become one of the most published Macedonian writers of the middle generation. His novel The Death Of The Scrivener is situated in the 14th century, under the stone walls of the town Bitola which at the moment is under siege of Ottoman conquering armies. This is a novel in which the author makes an attempt to reinvestigate human’s nature in which crime and cruelty mix with honourability and holiness. Actually these two extremes can only relatively be talked about in reference to individual characters in the novel, because they are shown as most often being mixed or masked one into/with another. Under various circumstances holiness is being forced to manifest as crime, while the criminal nature may gain the appearance of undoubted honourability. This novel calls upon two of the greatest and most famous works of literature on the fall of holiness and the persistence of the demonic: Goethe’s Faustus and Milton’s Paradise Lost.