REFLECTION OF ARTISTIC-AESTHETIC PRINCIPLES AND SPIRIT OF THE PERIOD IN THE NOVEL "BALANCE"

The article studies the artistic interpretation of the socio-spiritual environment formed during the years of independence on the basis of one of the important examples of modern Uzbek prose - Balance. The study analyzes the inner searches of the individual, the transformational processes of society, and the aesthetic modelling of the psyche of the era within the framework of the spiritual-aesthetic space created by the author Ulugbek Hamdam. The disclosure of phenomena such as psychologism, internal collision, identity crisis, and spiritual instability in the poetics of the novel through the principles of artistic and philosophical thinking is interpreted on a scientific basis. The concept of "Balance" is interpreted in the work as a central aesthetic category that serves to understand the spiritual state of the era and is considered as the main criterion in illuminating the author's ideological and conceptual intention