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GENRE HYBRIDITY, SELF-DISCOVERY AND TRAUMA: ANDREA TOMPA’S THE HANGMAN’S HOUSE

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Balogh M.

World Literature Studies

2023

vol. 15

issue 4

83 – 95

Andrea Tompa’s novel A hóhér háza (2010; The Hangman’s House, 2021) gives insight into a teenage girl’s coming of age during the last decades of the Ceauşescu regime. Recounting the story of three generations of a Transylvanian intelligentsia family, from the 1940s until the fall of the dictatorship in 1989, the novel depicts all the crucial moments of 20th-century Transylvanian history. At its crux stands a journey of self-discovery, which gains meaning in the context of the family history. This duality is reflected in the hybridity of the novel’s genre. Tompa’s work is of a hybrid genre that, in addition to the dominant presence of the autobiographical novel, encompasses elements of the Bildungsroman and the family novel. Self-discovery and family history are joined together in the protagonist’s character, as the traumatic experiences of the family past become crucial parts of the protagonist’s self-knowledge and personality through post-memory.

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