Bildungsroman

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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

Herzog’s early years read like a Bildungsroman, like something he had immortalised in one of his own films.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2020

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

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