bildungsroman
Noun
Meaning
bildungsroman (plural bildungsromans or bildungsromane)
A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
Bildungsroman (plural Bildungsromans or Bildungsromane)
Alternative letter-case form of bildungsroman
Examples
“A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance.”
Felix Salten 's Bambi (1923) is a Bildungsroman — a story of a protagonist 's coming-of-age — cast in the form of a fable.
As a " bildungsroman of the cybernetic age," Galvan maintains, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? follows one person's gradual acceptance of the new reality.
In a Bildungsroman, the goal is maturity, and the protagonist achieves it gradually and with difficulty.
‘Califórnia’ Dreaming Boosts Brazilian Bildungsroman Marina Person brings 1984’s sights and sounds to the screen BY SEAN EGAN “You kind of plan everything,” says Marina Person, a Brazilian writer/ director, on independent filmmaking.
“Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?” a professor asks in the book’s opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator’s first workshop submission.