Nézz körül! Ezt a világot Sterne teremtette. Találkozási pontok a Karnevál és a Tristram Shandy között
Look around! Sterne created this world. Carnival's references to Tristram Shandy

Summary/Abstract: Hamvas Béla’s Carnival (Karnevál), written between 1948 and 1951, was published in 1985. This novel, called the “catalogue of fate”, “inventar of mankind” is filled with a lot of allusions and references to literary and philosophical traditions. Tristram Shandy is one of the most important texts that reverberates throughout Carnival. Both Tristram Shandy and Carnival can be considered a non-conventional novel in their usage of the technique of digressions creating metafiction and intertextuality. In the essayistic dialogues of Carnival, in curtain lectures, conversations between protagonist Mihály Bormester and the spiritual agent (the voice) permanently divert into endless interruptions and self-reflexive comments. The paper aims to examine these metanarrative strategies and investigate intertextual relationships in novels. The other purpose of the paper is to focus on the influence of Sterne’s hobby-horse (manic obsession) on Carnival’s monomania, delineating the absurdity of subjectivity

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