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

These books have a good claim to have founded two of the major genres of the modern novel—respectively, the Bildungsroman and the novel of adultery.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 1, 2016

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