This article explains how the event schema of " generational " story in a Russian novel (not in accordance with the traditional schemes - "Oedipus complex", "Fathers and Sons") changes to the end of the 20th century and put the problem of finding approaches to the explanation of this scheme in the latest works of 1990 - x - 2000s. The analysis of the semantics of the concept of "generation" states that "generation" is considered as one of the institutions of the objectification of reality, because it is to transfer to a new generation of institutional objectivity of the world must "increase" and "strengthen". The paper proposes a concept of the "generational" plot as an image of communication of generations at "with being" the character is included in the construction of the image of the objective reality of subjective idea in order to  transfer the experience to another generations . The article provides an explanation of this subject, drawing on the phenomenological concept of sociological P. Berger and Luckman.