Bildungsroman

How to use Bildungsroman in a sentence

• The sexual Bildungsroman, for the uninitiated, centers on Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a 15-year-old high school student in Lille.

  ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’: See What the Sex Scene Looks Like In the Graphic Novel | Marlow Stern | October 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious Bildungsroman.

  Paul Auster, Bernhard Schlink, and More of This Week’s Hot Reads: Aug. 13, 2012 | Mythili Rao | August 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST