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

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

The show is an epic Bildungsroman and dank autofiction, built tough by the RZA, about a young black man hoping to mold himself into a god.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019

The core problem is that his enthusiasms get the better of him, and the book reads like a music fan’s Bildungsroman, rather than a critic’s enlightening reflections.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

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