Evelyn Waugh and Abdulla Kakhar’s life challenges influencing their creative work

Looking at the research done in recent years in the field of literature, one can be sure that a comparative study is an extremely comprehensive field. The main object of this research was focused on two writers who lived and worked in different geographical areas, socio-political systems and specific literary environments but almost at the same time. One of them is Evelyn Waugh, the English writer, famous for his satirical works in the 20th century, and the other is Abdulla Kakhar, the founder of the School of Uzbek Narrative Literature. The main reason why these writers were selected for our research is the closeness of the themes and plots of the stories “Out of Depth” and “Prophecy” (E.Waugh), “Love in the Slump” and “The Woman Who Didn’t Eat Raisins” (A.Kakhar).
The article deals with the analysis of writers’ artistic interpretation of their intentions highlighted in their works. The focus is on their specific expression of the moral and philosophical worldview and the stages of formation and development of their narration, including the genre dynamics and its new forms in their short stories.
While analyzing the authors of the article used synthesis, comparative induction and deduction, comparative historical and comparative biographical methods.
In the course of this research the authors considered inter-literary relations in various fields, which were objectively evaluated, commonalities and differences were identified. Moreover, the problem of the genesis of a short story was approached on the basis of world artistic-philosophical and socio-cultural thinking; biographical episodes of two writers were covered in the comparative literary aspect; and finally, the ideological unity of writers who lived and worked in different environment was determined.