THE INFLUENCE OF H.G. WELLS’S THE INVISIBLE MAN ON TOHIR MALIK’S HIKMAT AFANDINING O‘LIMI

Abstract

This article investigates the intertextual relationship between H.G. Wells’s seminal science fiction novel The Invisible Man and Tohir Malik’s short novel Hikmat Afandining O‘limi (The Death of Hikmat Afandi). Through comparative literary analysis, the study reveals narrative, thematic, and philosophical parallels between the two works. Malik, writing within the Uzbek literary tradition, adapts the concept of invisibility not merely as a physical condition but as a metaphor for moral decline, social invisibility, and alienation. While Wells uses invisibility to explore unchecked ambition and scientific ego, Malik transforms it into a vehicle for psychological and cultural commentary.