ANALYSIS OF ULUG'BEK HAMDAM'S STORY "LONELINESS"

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This article analyzes Ulugbek Hamdam's work "Loneliness." The article artistically expresses a person's inner experiences, mental anguish, and alienation from society. The work reveals loneliness in a person from a philosophical and psychological point of view, describes mental states characteristicofhumanity through images. Keywords:loneliness, innerexperience, consciousness, philosophical motive, mental anguish. Ulugbek Hamdam is the author of several prose, poetic, and literary-critical collections. His first prose book was published under the title "Loneliness." "Loneliness," which includes the story of the same name and a number of stories in the collection, is not a work dedicated to the artistic interpretation of a particular interesting event, it does not contain traditional images, descriptions, scenes, dialogues: it is also fundamentally different from other realistic stories in terms of genre. Criticism is evaluated as a kind of symbolic work that clearly indicates the renewal of loneliness in our prose. In his stories, the author also tries to depict the eternally restless, dangerous part of thehumansoul. The characters of Ulugbek Hamdam face complex questions in their inner world: they feel alienated from society, and this aspect limits theirpersonal growth andalienation. The author reveals the situations in which a person encounters loneliness, the reasons why they can be subjected to loneliness. As they say, a person first of all understands who he is when he is alone with his heart, modern Uzbek literature describes the inner experiences of a person, conflicts with society, and mental anguish. This is why the writer's work is especially distinguished by the fact that it is written in a psychological and philosophical spirit. The work is based on the contradictions between the individual and society, spirit and body, suffering and hope. The article reveals that attention is paid to the artistic structure, psycho-philosophical views, and analysis of themain character ofthis work. Solitude is not only solitude, but also the inability to understand inner feelings, isolation from society, and the path to understanding inner truth. Through the life of the main character, a person's self-awareness is described. The hero lives not only in the external world, but also in the inner world, and searches for the meaning of his life in the deviation of memories, thoughts, dreams, and regrets. This path leads him to the age of loneliness. Through the work, the author reveals the complexities of human consciousness and life views through artistic means. The writer used methods such as inner monologue, symbolic images, and psychological analysis. Images rich in linguistic intonation are closely connected with thought and mental state. The writer describes loneliness not as ordinary suffering, but as a philosophical-spiritual experience, a level of inner awakening, through the inner contradictions and conflicts of the hero, the reader can recognize himself and the truth, look at life from a different point of view. The work shows not the individuality of one person, but the invisible mental state of each person in society. Today, even when people communicate with the outside world, that is, with society, they often have incomprehensible, lonely, and alien feelings in their hearts. In the work, it is precisely this phenomenon that reveals the contradictions between human existence in society and at the same time loneliness. The work contains many symbolic images, such as night, rain, silence, window. https://ijmri.de/index.php/jmsi volume 4,issue5,2025 621 Through these symbols, the author managed to instill in the reader's consciousness the night - mental anguish, the loss of meaning in life, the window - the boundary between the inner and outer world, rain and silence - a state of spiritual purification or inner silence. Through these symbols, students can clearly feel not only reality, but also the inner feelings of the hero. Because the hero cannot adapt to society, society cannot understand him. This creates a peculiar stateof"alienation." The reader who reads the work encourages them to think deeply about the events taking place in society, changes, moral values, and changes occurring in the inner and outer world. In the works of Ulugbek Hamdam, the main idea is the expression of philosophical and psychological ideas through artistic images, simple, but deeply thought-provoking events, the predominance of mood, feelings, and thinking over the plot.The work is an artistic and philosophical text that encourages oneto penetratethedepths of thehumanpsyche, tofeel invisible, butheart-wrenching states. "For some reason, I looked at myself as if I were an object. As I gazed at my reflection in the mirror, my attention grew like a jeweler forgiving a strange stone with hope. I asked myself: "Strange, when will I die?" Then the thought crossed my mind: "Now where and for what purpose should I use this machine-bod