This article is devoted to the analysis of the story genre in Russian and Uzbek literature of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, in which a subjectivist-open position in attitude to reality acquires the quality of the leading principle organizing its artistic integrity. The whole layer of works is analyzed where the triad “author-narrator-character” is realized differently. The three components of its beginning are connected at one point, the author becomes both the narrator and the protagonist of the literary text. Moreover, either a partial or complete coincidence of the narrator with the author is observed. In such stories, regardless of the object of reflection, the narration is conducted in the first person and is purely subjective. We decided that it was logical to consider them in accordance with one or another specific type of authorship presented. As a result, we have developed a classification of the types of the author’s “Self”, which is represented by introverted, juvenile- retrospective and lyrical types of the author’s “Self” in modern Russian and Uzbek short stories.