BASIC LITERARY ELEMENTS OF THE XX CENTURY ENGLISH AND UZBEK SHORT STORIES (BASED ON HERBERT BATES AND SAID AHMAD'S SHORT STORIES)

The story is a small epic genre in artistic literature, a composed prose piece of life. The story of world literature has ancient traditions. In the past, the story took part in the composition of folklore works. As an independent genre, it is only in written literature. Over the last one hundred and fifty years, the short story has gained popularity in the literature of several countries. Although short story is the most widely read of all the genres in the modern times, yet little critical attention is given to the short story. Short Story saw a temporary setback in the forties owing to interruption made by the war and the literary energies was scattered into different fields. Nevertheless, a few short stories were inspired by war of which the excellent were by H. E. Bates: which appeared under the Pseudonym of “Flying officer X”. Bates first collection “The Greatest people in the world “sold like hot cakes and a little above three hundred thousand copies were sold. Another factor responsible for scanty output in the body of the Short story was due to paper shortage. The problem was overcome a little soon before the rise of the next decade