Multidisciplinary Journal of Science and Technology

TRUTH, HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE ETHICS OF ARTISTIC REALISM IN THE PROSE OF SHUKUR KHOLMIRZAEV

Boboqulova Dilbar

Termiz davlat universiteti talabasi

Keywords: Shukur Kholmirzaev, Uzbek literature, psychological realism, artistic truth, human psychology, national character, moral conflict, prose studies, literary analysis, social determinism.

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Abstract

This article examines the artistic interpretation of truth and human psychology in the prose of Shukur Kholmirzaev, one of the most influential representatives of twentieth-century Uzbek literature. The study aims to reveal how the writer constructs psychological depth not through abstract philosophical declaration, but through conflict, silence, moral hesitation, inner fracture, and the collision between individual conscience and social pressure. The research is based on the analysis of selected works commonly associated with Kholmirzaev’s mature prose, especially stories such as Uzbek Character, Tabassum, and Ot egasi, as well as the novel Olabo‘ji. The article uses comparative-typological, psychological, and textual analysis to identify the dominant mechanisms of characterization and meaning production in these works. The results show that Kholmirzaev’s realism is not limited to social representation; it operates as a moral and psychological method aimed at exposing the unstable balance between dignity and weakness, loyalty and betrayal, instinct and self-control, truth and social convenience. His characters are not schematic embodiments of virtue or vice; rather, they are internally divided personalities whose actions disclose deeper laws of human nature. The study argues that Kholmirzaev’s prose occupies a special place in Uzbek literature because it transforms local life material into a universal artistic inquiry into freedom, responsibility, estrangement, and moral endurance. The article concludes that Kholmirzaev’s artistic legacy remains highly relevant for contemporary literary studies because it offers a powerful model of psychological realism grounded simultaneously in national character, ethical tension, and existential depth.

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