STYLISTIC DEVICES AS A VEHICLE OF EXISTENTIAL MEANING IN ISAJON SULTON’S BOQIY DARBADAR (ETERNAL WANDERER)
Keywords:
Isajon Sulton, Boqiy darbadar, Eternal Wanderer, metaphor, allusion, antithesis, personification, Uzbek literatureAbstract
This article presents a comprehensive stylistic and semantic analysis of figurative language in Isajon Sulton’s novel Boqiy darbadar (Eternal Wanderer). The study focuses on four major literary devices—metaphor, allusion, antithesis, and personification—and examines how they function as core mechanisms for expressing existential displacement, spiritual search, and historical memory in the text. Employing a qualitative literary-analytical methodology, the article situates Sulton’s artistic practice within broader traditions of Eastern philosophical prose and modern Uzbek literature. The findings demonstrate that figurative language in Boqiy darbadar is not ornamental but structural: it organizes narrative logic, shapes character consciousness, and mediates between individual fate and collective history.
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