Lubomír Doležel uses the term “narrative explanation” not only in his book Heterocosmica II but in his other publications for example concerning the issue of historiography as well. Nevertheless the validity of the issue of the narrative explanation is much more wide and general and it cannot be restricted to one academic discipline only. That’s why the crucial question of the study is: What the narrative explanation is? How is the narrative explanation possible and what are its basic forms? The author of the suty briefly characterises the basic variations in the use of this specific mode of explanation in the field of humanities, social and natural science. He introduces the problematics of the narrative explanation in eight theses.