Combining the perspectives of the narrator and the characters in the literature of XIX-XX centuries. Word "story" in reference to the literature used in different ways. Epos character essay literature. This is - a chain of verbal messages, or, more simply, the story of what happened before. Narratives have a time gap between speech and conduct of the subject of verbal signs. For narrating (telling) is typical position of a man, recalled had taken place earlier. Like the author of an epic work, the playwright is subject to the "law of the emerging". This is epic, drama and poetry. However, in the XIX century. In everyday speech lyrical works are often identified with poetry, and epic - with prose.