„Befogad és kitaszít a világ”
“Welcomed Gladly, and Spurned by Everyone”

From the Private to the Universal in Andrea Tompa’s Home

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to answer the question of how the autobiographically inspired narrative can become intersubjective and universal in its own right. Andrea Tompa’s novel entitled Home (2020) is examined as autofiction, that is, a combination of autobiography and fiction, with a special attention to generic, thematic and rhetorical markers and textual strategies that create autofiction as a complex discursive modality. Through the narrative and rhetorical strategies of autofiction, a very rich field of reflexivity is formed in the novel, in which the search for self is fulfilled as an intercultural, interlingual experience, an – intertextual and intermedial – journey in space, time, philosophy, literature and arts, transforming the private into the universal.

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