By the 20th century, Uzbek literature began to experiment with many genres. More attention was paid to the ideological issues of literature than to the aesthetic aspects. The unity of literature and journalism has increased. Therefore, in the literature of this period, the border between journalistic and artistic genres disappeared, their features overlapped. Prose mixed with elements of drama. The form and content of the poem have been updated. Finger and arm weights have become popular. Prose literary genres in this season: travel, comedy, story, commentary, anecdote; genres of literary criticism are classified as reviews, literary-critical articles, letters, and advertising-criticisms. The introduction of theater, stage plays and reviews of them gave birth to a real literary criticism