Anthropocentrism of literary discourse is primarily manifested in the discursive personality of the author and character. The author’s discursive personality manifested in the author’s modality and intentionality is determined by the entire system of language tools used in the literary discourse, which is reflected in the selection of lexical tools, in the semantic, pragmatic and compositional structure of the discourse. At the same time, some fragments of the discourse express the discursive personality of the author and the character with the greatest degree of obviousness, which allows us to consider them as verbal markers of anthropocentrism. The character's discursive personality is a complicated structure and includes the characteristics inherent in the discursive personality of the character and the author. The verbal markers of the character's discursive personality are a) literary discourse; b) represented speech; c) graphical means characterized by the expression of the author’s modality and aimed at characterizing the character’s image in communicatively pragmatic, cognitive, cultural, and psychological aspects. Represented speech, being a complex linguistic phenomenon based on the interaction of the speech of the author and the character, contributes, on the one hand, to the disclosure of conceptual information underlying in the literary discourse, and, on the other hand, to express author’s modality and intentionality. The essential characteristic of the not pure direct speech is its double-sided nature, which can be presented unequally, i.e. depending on the pragmatic attitude, DL of the author or character may come to the fore. Another characteristic of not pure direct speech is its stylistic markedness and heterogeneity, presented in the convergence of stylistic techniques aimed at creating emotiveness and imagery.