Bildungsroman

Kuang once again crafts a unique Bildungsroman that doesn't fulfill the usual expectations for what fantasy is or perhaps, what a Western fantasy is expected to be — and that is its most profound strength.

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2022

The unusually wide-angle perspective may owe something to the fact that the main character, slightly older than the Bildungsroman norm, has a lot of experiential miles behind him.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2022

Indeed, many of his books are not just novels of education—the Bildungsroman that had been a classic genre in European literature since Goethe—but specifically novels of schooling.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018

Mr. Lewis, whose 1989 Wall Street Bildungsroman “Liar’s Poker” influenced a generation of traders, concludes that, overall, practitioners of high-speed, computerized trading are rigging the financial markets at the expense of everyone else.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2014

One might say, indeed, that at the beginning of the 20th century the traditional form of German fiction, the Bildungsroman, had come into its ancient rights again.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

It's the state written about by Douglas Coupland in the nineties and in the Bildungsromane of the 19th Century, and it's emerging adulthood – not sexual ethics – that I see as Catherine's main theme.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2012

Bildungsromans about writers tend to end with them resolving to write their own stories — James Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, say, going to forge “the uncreated conscience of my race.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2017