Bildungsroman

• “* Bildungsroman is a German word meaning 'novel of formation' - that is a novel that follows someone's growth from childhood to maturity.”

  The Namesake: Summary and book reviews of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.

• “Bildungsroman is a German word meaning "novel of development.”

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• “* Bildungsroman is a novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character, from the German word bildung (formation) and the French word for a novel, roman.”

  Eragon: Summary and book reviews of Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

• “If "The Novice" were fiction, it would be called a Bildungsroman -- a novel of education.”

  Peter Clothier: The Novice: A Book Review

• “I said "Bildungsroman" - in some essential sense "Dreams from My Father" was fictionalized.”

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• “I always think of these two in sort of the same genre - what in literature is called Bildungsroman (hooray! finally a use for that Lit minor!).”

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• “In part it's a kind of Bildungsroman -- the lit crit word for a novel of education.”

  Peter Clothier: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

• “Never once have I seen the word "Bildungsroman" to describe any of those novels.”

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• “I presume it’s what the Germans call a Bildungsroman, ja?”

  Simon & Schuster: The Woman in the Fifth

• “As in God's Mountain, the tale initially appears to be a memoir or a Bildungsroman until we realize at the end of the novel that it is more like a coming-of-age novel highlighting episodes from the narrator's childhood to the end of his teens and not any kind of document recording the narrator's life from youth to adulthood.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness

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