The article analyzes the autobiographical and satirical social motives found in the stories of Evelyn Waugh and Abdulla Kakhar. The first source about the theoretical and conceptual aspects of the motif is created by A.N. Veselovskiy. In his opinion, the motif is a formula that was created in the form of a figurative answer to the mysterious questions of nature in the centuries when humanity existed as a primitive society. Evelyn Waugh and Abdulla Kakhar effectively used autobiographical motifs in their stories. Through the autobiographical motif, the author usually describes his life in a coherent way, in which the desire to fully understand the social life in which the writer lived becomes an important character. Autobiography borders on similar genres in many respects: biography, memoirs, diaries. Autobiographical motives are manifested in the choice of the hero of the work, in the psychological analysis of his inner world, that is, when the author's biography is the basis for these. Considering autobiography as the basis of creativity is a subjective phenomenon. But the choice of the subject and the expression of autobiographical motives for depicting reality are based on the description of objective conditions: early orphanhood, participation in the war, unsuccessful relations with relatives all this creates a tragic picture of reality. Thus, the demand for a reliable depiction of reality and the images of his childhood, adolescence, and life in general give realism and truthfulness to the events of the work. As a result, the writers achieved an increase in drama in the depiction of events, a lively depiction of heroes. Comparative-typological, biographical, contextual analysis methods were used in the research process. The purpose of the article is to analyze the artistic details in the satirical stories of Evelyn Waugh and Abdulla Kakhar, to determine the satirical essence.