Keywords
modernizm, ekzistensializm, xronotop, absurd makon, o‘zlikdan begonalashuv, ramz, allegoriya, totalitar tuzum, Rassom chol, manqurtlashuv, olomon psixologiyasi.
Abstract
This scientific article analyzes one of the fundamental examples of Uzbek modernist prose of the late 20th and early 21st centuries – Nazar Eshonqul’s short story “The Man Leading a Monkey”. The paper examines universal problems such as the principles of Western existential philosophy, the alienation of the individual, spiritual slavery, and the deformation of human nature by a totalitarian regime. The plot-compositional structure of the story, the metaphor of the “two portraits”, and the psychology of the crowd are substantiated from the perspective of artistic psychologism.