INTERTEXTUAL REPRESENTATION OF SPIRITUAL CRISIS IN AMERICAN AND UZBEK NOVELS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF F.S. FITZGERALD, E. A’ZAM AND U. HAMDAM

Abstract

This article investigates the intertextual representation of spiritual crisis in American and Uzbek novels through a comparative analysis of F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Erkin A’zam’s Momoqaldiroq ostida sayr and Ulug‘bek Hamdam’s Muvozanat. The study focuses on the artistic expression of moral emptiness, value conflict, loss of inner harmony and the contradiction between material success and spiritual stability. Intertextuality is examined not only as a relation between literary texts, but also as a connection between cultural memory, social experience and philosophical interpretation. The article argues that although American and Uzbek novels belong to different historical and national-literary contexts, they reveal similar concerns about the human search for meaning, moral identity and inner balance in a changing society.