Implicitness in Translation: A Contrastive Analysis of Uzbek Literary Discourse and Its English Rendering in Utkir Hoshimov's Ikki Eshik Orasi (Between the Doors)

The present article applies Kashichkin’s theoretical framework to the analysis of a specific literary case: Utkir Hoshimov’s celebrated Uzbek novel Ikki eshik orasi (Between the Doors, 2012) and its published English translation. Hoshimov’s prose is distinguished by its dense use of subtext and implication, making it a rich corpus for the investigation of how implicit meaning is constructed in Uzbek literary discourse and how it fares across the boundary of English translation. The novel’s title itself – literally ‘Between two doors’ – functions as a sustained metaphor for the threshold states of its characters: between truth and falsehood, between loyalty and self-preservation, between the spoken and the withheld.