LITERARY PICTURE OF THE WORLD (BASED ON THE WORKS OF O'TKIR HOSHIMOV AND IAN MCEWAN)

The literary picture of the world represents a particular form of conceptualizing reality through artistic language. It reflects not only objective reality but also the author’s worldview, cultural values, moral principles, historical experience, and perception of human existence. This article examines the literary picture of the world in the works of the Uzbek writer O‘tkir Hoshimov and the British novelist Ian McEwan. Although the writers belong to different cultural and literary traditions, their works demonstrate a number of universal concerns, including human dignity, family, memory, moral responsibility, war, guilt, and interpersonal relationships. At the same time, these universal concepts acquire different semantic and cultural interpretations within Uzbek and British literary contexts. The article applies comparative, linguocultural, cognitive-semantic, and literary-discursive approaches to identify similarities and differences in the representation of reality in the works of the two authors.