Abstract. This article discusses the position of the author and the function of the narrator in the story "The Man Without a Head" by A. Kahkhor. The author's skill in turning reality into fiction in the story, figurative means: the ability to use such artistic means as comparison, comparison, irony, the writer's ability to use the word, the function of the narrator in the structure of the story, his role in realizing the relationship between the student and the reader, introduction others, their place and significance in the structure of the work, the neutral and biased position of the narrator in the narrative genre, the importance of the method of conveying information to the reader reasonably and quickly in the formation of characters, that the events expected by the reader do not occur in the plot, the reader’s plot scientific conclusions are made about the importance the contrast method used in an image to make it appear true to text.