The study is concerned with individual aspects of the concept of characters in some demonstrative Russian and Czech postmodernist novels from the late 20th century and the early 21st century. The turn of the century brought a variety of attempts for renaissance of fictitious literary work in a totally different form in both the Czech and Russian literature. This period is associated with seeking new options within this genre as well as the efforts to expand and enhance it. One of those options is an extension of the role of a character – narrator and frequent perception thereof as a character with a narrative function. These considerations were based on the novels by D. Hodrová, J. Kratochvil, T. Tolstaya, V. Pelevin and V. Aksenov.