It's the formula this technological bildungsroman always has to follow.
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There's a bildungsroman chapter about a blurred relationship with a pastor.
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That's the classic bildungsroman, our (well-educated) sports reporter reminds us.
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It's a bildungsroman crafted with the expert aid of a novelist.
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Straight James / Gay James is a poetic bildungsroman—raw, candid, and uninhibited.
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This book is a luscious, strange growth, more bildungsroman than philosophical treatise.
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Bellow's semi-autobiographical bildungsroman is not just long but also episodic and ornate.
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After establishing the conflicts and desires of the adults, the narrative becomes a bildungsroman.
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The effect is of a rather wayward Bildungsroman of his path to becoming a neurosurgeon.
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It's a bite-sized bildungsroman about the potent, life-changing combination of fear and excitement.
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Picking up a copy of The Education of Eva Moskowitz, you might expect a bildungsroman.
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James's career, as inadvertently reflected by the radio banter, was now the stuff of bildungsroman.
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" For Hammad, the closest model would appear to be Flaubert's great bildungsroman, "A Sentimental Education.
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Sketchbook | Tribute A nod to the classic English bildungsroman "Great Expectations," first serialized in December 1860.
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Like Pullman's original trilogy, his new book is a bildungsroman, and it is a violent one.
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Train Whistle Guitar has even been characterized as one of the greatest African American Bildungsroman narratives.
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Her second album, My Life (2200), is a bildungsroman of a woman processing childhood abuse and heartbreak.
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Aside from bananas, Crystal Moselle's skateboarding bildungsroman Skate Kitchen has a theme, and that theme is wild youth.
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"A Tokyo Romance" is a bildungsroman written with a winning mix of nostalgic bravado and judicious self-deprecation.
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Like his memoir, it is a bildungsroman that begins in childhood and ends at the cusp of adulthood.
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The epic of the coarse young man chomping at the venture capital bit is our generation's bildungsroman of choice.
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It is an age-old story, the animating force of every bildungsroman and fantasy novel: how one becomes oneself.
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His money had been on "A Little Life," Hanya Yanagihara's bildungsroman-cum-trauma-opera set in contemporary New York.
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Perhaps this was Fugal's Bildungsroman, his journey into the unknown to seek adventure and, in some strange way, knowledge.
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In itself it's everything from allegory to Bildungsroman to gothic horror delving into sci-fi, and so much more.
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So goes the bildungsroman half of the novel, which hits its stride midway as a brutally sad romantic comedy.
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Friend, you have missed out on a saga for the ages—a sprawling, convoluted bildungsroman full of intrigue and betrayal.
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She feels immortal to me, and the book is so delightfully playful and strange; an erotic bildungsroman for the ages.
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A bildungsroman — even a spare one — needs to give its heroine a wide berth so readers can watch her unfold.
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In telling his truth and not worrying too much about whether it was "universal," Stew fashioned a wry, regretful bildungsroman.
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This renders The Man Who Saw Everything less a journey of discovery, a bildungsroman, than its opposite: a saga of unraveling.
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Set in the mid-1990s, the film is part time capsule, part bildungsroman and part hagiography of skating's predigital glory days.
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This artist's bildungsroman has enough on its hands wrestling with complex questions about art-making, integrity and the ethics of ambition.
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"My Struggle" may be, like "All That Man Is," in flight from The Novel, but it is really an enormous bildungsroman.
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In Flesh and Blood, he uses a chapter-long scene running up to a blowjob as a kind of self-contained bildungsroman.
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But it is also a Bildungsroman: one woman's journey across the political divide, to an empathy with those on the other side.
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The emotional intensity reads as internal to the characters, that of a bildungsroman rather than the sensational projections of a bodice ripper.
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Baz Luhrmann's new Netflix series The Get Down is a fantastical bildungsroman set against the backdrop of the Bronx in the late 1970s.
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It was the classic turning point of a Bildungsroman: Having left mainland Italy for the island of Ischia, Lenù begins to truly blossom.
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Even in his initial memoir, he offers more about the byzantine machinations of small-town Vermont politics than any hint of a bildungsroman.
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The game-changer for me was Doris Lessing's "Children of Violence" series, a five-novel bildungsroman stretching from colonial Rhodesia to postwar London.
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Illustrating the relevance and prevalence of digital media to growing up these days, Wynbrant has created a relatable bildungsroman from some very unconventional scenarios.
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Science fiction, fantasy is a youth-loving tradition, the bildungsroman, the origin story of the young farm boy or farm girl who's finding their way.
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Saleem Haddad (Tuesday) Mr. Haddad discusses his debut novel, "Guapa," a bildungsroman with a backdrop of political upheaval and forbidden love in the Middle East.
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" The bildungsroman, Slaughter said, is "also about the beginnings of middle age — finding that place where you're comfortable, not excited by the same youthful fantasies.
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His F.B.I. interviews amount to a sort of jihadist bildungsroman, telling the story of a shy, serious and earnest son of a prominent Nigerian businessman.
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"But unlike in a classic bildungsroman, here, much of the story line in between is missing; the result is curious, sometimes very dark — and often delightful."
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Though coming-of-age stories are traditionally conceived of as solo journeys, Washington reshapes the bildungsroman into a collective narrative, often employing the third person we.
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The technical term for a novel of growth is "bildungsroman," a German word (roughly, "novel of development") for a genre that started with a German book.
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Lamar made a compelling, Compton-bred bildungsroman only to lose to a bad rap album, which chief source of acclaim came from its perceived social awareness.
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But unlike in a classic bildungsroman, here, much of the story line in between is missing; the result is curious, sometimes very dark — and often delightful.
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But it is the right one for a man who at all times, albeit rather lightheartedly, seems aware of himself as the hero of a bildungsroman.
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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.
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Too often in the classic War Story, Iraq and Iraqis are often merely the exotic backdrop or inscrutable bit players in the journey of American bildungsroman.
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Consider Big Mouth the bildungsroman for bodily functions — the series is about the spiritual awakening of the hormonal glands, the eruption of all things gross and embarrassing.
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In contrast to the usual bildungsroman with a hidden heir to power who must find himself, Princess Hailimi Mercedes Jaya Bristol (Hail for short) is pushing 40.
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In Jutland, "Open Me" transforms from a well-written and recognizable Bildungsroman (younger woman meets older man abroad, education ensues) into something much darker, and more interesting.
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Some examine her trauma using these devices (the Unreliable Narrator, the Bildungsroman); others employ themes from folklore; still others are comprised of philosophical propositions and analytical essays.
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This latest book is an epic bildungsroman that presents the reader with four versions of the formative years of a Jewish boy born in Newark in 1947.
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The ways in which these bildungsroman stories discuss and confront their characters' class circumstances speak to a difficult, unfolding conversation in American cultural life about opportunity and independence.
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Roxana, the American teen-age narrator of this début bildungsroman, spends a summer abroad in a small Jutland town with a brooding Dane she has met named Søren.
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The series is the kind of bildungsroman female readers don't always get to see in literature — characters who contend with issues of family, power, love, and, often controversially, sex.
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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.
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The British writer Laura Barnett takes on this balancing act in her expansive new novel, "Greatest Hits," a musical bildungsroman structured around that familiar time capsule, the retrospective album.
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Bloom's life was a bildungsroman with the bildung done quite early; he seems to have emerged from the womb a capacious reader, starting with The Bible and Hart Crane.
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Now imagine that the novel systematically subverts the swelling arc of the bildungsroman—that, on the cusp of each achievement, some ghostly hand pulls our hero back from victory.
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Gradually, the bildungsroman unravels into a web of interconnected stories, depicting the friends' lives, and the lives of their families, lovers, friends, and neighbors from a multiplicity of angles.
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So, I thought as a way to take this further, what if I use this non-human but intelligent narrator in a sort of bildungsroman or coming-of-age narrative?
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Louis completed The End of Eddy at 20, while a student at the École Normale Supérieure, by which point the book's objective had expanded beyond that of the typical bildungsroman.
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It's a bildungsroman about a young lieutenant named Jack Porter trying to live up to his older brother's heroics and learning what it means to lead a platoon under combat conditions.
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"Yomeddine" is not a coming-of-age exactly — Beshay is no adolescent — but his search for a lost part of his identity mimics the patterns of the well-worn bildungsroman genre.
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The next in the series is the writer and T contributor Bret Easton Ellis, who shares his list exclusively with T. "Sentimental Education," Gustave Flaubert My favorite novel and the greatest bildungsroman.
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Whether it is Mrs Dalloway's day or the longer arc of the Bildungsroman, there is generally an inherent limit on the temporal horizons of serious novels: the length of a character's life.
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On the surface a bildungsroman about Reno, a young American trying to make it in the art world of New York in the 1970s, Kushner's novel portrays far more than individual mobility.
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Indeed, so many scandalous things happen in the novel—from adultery and illegitimacy to arson, incest, and suicide—that it often feels more like a gothic parody than like an earnest Bildungsroman.
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It is a gleefully written bildungsroman picaresque, as maximalist as novels come, and it swoops through eight decades of a family's history in the voice of an intersex man named Cal, born Calliope.
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Jackson Edwards, Wesley Gow, Jack Trent, Jaya Krishnan, 17 "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison's bildungsroman centered around an unnamed black protagonist (written to be symbolic of any black man), should not be relevant today.
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And where "The Color of Water" deals with isolation in many of the ways that "Kill 'Em and Leave" does, it is essentially a bildungsroman, a tale of the derivation of its narrator.
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This bildungsroman set in the New York restaurant scene takes place in the course of a year during which the protagonist grows from naïve provincial escapee to self-actualized expert in the industry.
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Whereas the first volume was in many ways a bildungsroman — the education of Margaret Thatcher — this latest volume takes us from electoral triumph to electoral triumph, with not much to challenge her between times.
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Mel Young, Lawrence, N.Y. Entering the Land of Oz To the Sports Editor: Re "James's Story Completes Its Arc," June 22: It was entirely accurate to identify the LeBron James odyssey as a bildungsroman.
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He is the sly centerpiece of his team's unfinished bildungsroman, and seems happy to take the necessary heat and provide some Falstaffian comic relief as the Pistons begin their rough transition into playoff contenders.
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"Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?" a professor asks in the book's opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator's first workshop submission.
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Despite its title, Abbé Prévost's 18th-century novel "Manon Lescaut" is more a bildungsroman about the Chevalier des Grieux, the young man whose desire for Manon takes him to the edge of ruin and back.
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But Book 5 seems both more controlled and traditional in form than much of what's gone before, following the conventions of the bildungsroman to tell the story of an unhappy young man who becomes a writer.
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Cusk made her début in 1993, at the age of twenty-six, with "Saving Agnes," a down-from-Oxford bildungsroman about a grandiose, tormented girl finding her way in London, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award.
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It's a bold move to marry the bildungsroman, which Jojo sets at the end of the Third Reich, to Waititi's signature goofball aesthetic and frenetic self-awareness; the film is more successful in some moments than others.
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This week brings some serious-minded nonfiction (Wall Street wrongdoing, covert wars, depression) and meaty fiction (an epic bildungsroman, border wars, a multigenerational immigrant saga) with a glamorous dose of diverting memoir from the actress and biographer Patricia Bosworth.
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It's a brilliant beginning, in the tradition of the classical bildungsroman but extending the form into something more capacious, as if Emezi were pushing with all her might against the walls of a small room and succeeding in making it larger.
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The pair's story unfolds as a double bildungsroman set against a background of political and cultural upheavals, from the Nuremberg trials to Britain's moral panic about "deviant" behaviors and the stirrings of sexual freedom, of which Freya is a committed proponent.
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He presents us instead with a kind of bildungsroman of a young, privileged man who is forced to learn on the job and makes mistakes, of a rich man's son who is thrown into positions he is ill qualified for.
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Through painstaking reporting and surprisingly candid interviews with Valerie and other family members, teachers and mentors conducted over several years, he intersperses the past and present into a stranger-than-fiction bildungsroman of Green's excruciating childhood and improbable early adulthood.
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More important for the film, however, Rolling Stone is the catalyst for Miller's bildungsroman journey: The narrative of how he writes the cover story on Stillwater is really that of how his uncoolness is kryptonite to beautiful ladies and svelte rock stars.
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As its title suggests, there is a dazed, dreamlike quality to the prose of this bildungsroman, in which a masterly English translation by Jeffrey M. Green manages to retain the direct, concrete quality of the original Hebrew as well as its austere poetry.
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Books of The Times J. K. Rowling's magical seven-volume Harry Potter series is the ultimate bildungsroman, tracing that young wizard's coming of age, as he not only battles evil but also struggles to come to terms with the responsibilities, losses and burdens of adulthood.
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And by focusing on relatively unfamiliar characters—Apple's first chairman Mike Markkula instead of Steve Jobs; Atari's chief engineer Al Alcorn instead of dippy visionary Nolan Bushnell—she's able to produce a compelling geographical Bildungsroman that sheds light on why the Valley today operates as it does.
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Jackson Edwards, Wesley Gow, Jack Trent, Jaya Krishnan, 17, St. John's School: "Invisible Man" and "A Rebel, a Warrior and a Race Fiend" Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's bildungsroman centered around an unnamed black protagonist (written to be symbolic of any black man), should not be relevant today.
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It begins as a bildungsroman of sorts, set among the dumpling shops and noodle houses of Taiwan and Tokyo, where, as a diplomat's kid, young Platt acquires a love of Mongolian hot pots and onigiri along with a more general lesson in the world-expanding pleasures of the table.
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Paul Auster ventures into similar territory in "43 3 2 1," an epic bildungsroman that presents the reader with four versions of the formative years of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born in Newark in 24 (the origin of his unlikely surname is explained in the novel's opening paragraph).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last fall, the final volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's sprawling six-part bildungsroman, My Struggle, was published in English, with Edvard Munch's life-affirming 1911 painting "The Sun" on the cover — Norway's most illustrious artist as imprimatur for its most famous living author.
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"Godsend," which begins like a recognizable combination of bildungsroman and adventure tale, becomes much stranger and more original after it arrives in Pakistan, discovering within itself a profound understanding of the demands of religious practice—of religious submission, especially—which has eluded almost every serious contemporary American novelist since 9/11.
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The backdrop for Billy's bildungsroman is that moment when America, too, is finding itself amid great social upheaval: Consumer culture, mass entertainment and the Industrial Age are all on the rise, while Jazz Age journalism (in some ways not so different from our modern iteration of infotainment) is hungry for new heroes.
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In 1984 Mr. Arrufat published a novel, "La Caja Está Cerrada" ("The Box Is Shut"), an ambitious, 700-page bildungsroman inspired by his childhood in the 1940s, which he had written during his years as a pariah, when the only work he could find was in the basement of a dreary suburban library.
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Finally getting his breakthrough eight years later with Moonlight, a Brad Pitt-financed bildungsroman which tells a triptych of stories about a gay, muscle bound, bandanna wearing ghetto drug pusher, Jenkins quickly seized the star that seemed destined for Parker, providing the year's most emotionally crushing theatrical experience this side of Manchester of the Sea.
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" Mr. Odenkirk said in a statement that his book will be "a comic 'bildungsroman,' if you will — defined by Webster's Dictionary as 'a novel about the moral and psychological growth of the main character' — except this will be more memoir and the main character, Bob Odenkirk (actor, writer, comedian, gadabout), doesn't grow morally or psychologically.
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Like Larger Than Life and McQueen, The Gospel According to André is also a kind of bildungsroman, following the way Talley propelled himself from Jim Crow–era North Carolina to New York and transformed himself from a theatrically cape-wearing boy into the iconic editor, friend of Anna Wintour, and pop culture symbol of fabulousness that he became.
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Then there's the curious case of the 19643 screen adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's bildungsroman novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower: The MPAA initially went for the R, for language as well as a nonjudgmental depiction of acid use and the scandalizing sight of Emma Watson clad in a white bra for a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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Bildungsroman narratives helped cement the novel as one of the first popular art forms in 17th-century England, as readers reveled in stories like Robinson Crusoe, in which the intrepid protagonist — long before he washes ashore off the coast of Brazil — rejects his father's advice about the pleasures of the middle-class life awaiting him in England, and takes to sea.
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Narrated by Aemilia Bassano Lanier, a cross-dressing poetess of Jewish descent living on the periphery of the court of Queen Elizabeth at the turn of the 17th century, Sharratt's historical novel is not just a response to the enigmas surrounding Shakespeare's sonnets but also an absorbing bildungsroman that grapples with strikingly contemporary issues of gender and religious identification, definitions and discrimination.
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Along the way he wrote an acclaimed novel, "High Cotton," published in the early 1990s, a kind of postmodern bildungsroman in which the unnamed narrator, raised amid the black bourgeoisie of Indianapolis, dabbles in, satirizes, but most often simply avoids the various identities that his family, on the one hand, and a dominant white culture, on the other, are eager to slot him into.
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Together, the two films form a bildungsroman unlike anything in American movies since John Ford's 1939 film Young Mr. Lincoln, an elegant and oddly terrifying presidential hagiography—Cahier Du Cinema once argued that it was produced by Daryl Zanuck on behalf of "American Big Business" to mythologize the country's most famous Republican and produce an election year defeat of FDR in 1940—that premiered seventy-five years after Lincoln's death.
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Like a classic bildungsroman, "The Songs We Know Best" tells the story of a shy, sensitive, preternaturally gifted boy who weathers a lonely childhood on a farm, awakens to the joys and mysteries of art, poetry and sex as a teenager, and finally assumes his true vocation as a poet when he arrives in the big city and falls in with a circle of revolutionary writers and artists.
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Filled with allusions to everything from "Tristram Shandy" to "The Lone Ranger," from "Paradise Lost" to "Alice in Wonderland," and crammed full with puns, wordplay, vulgar jokes and lyrical asides, "The Moor's Last Sigh" is many books at the same time: a demented family saga, a twisted Bildungsroman, an exploration of the uses and misuses of art and a dark historical parable that rivals Mr. Rushdie's 1981 masterpiece, "Midnight's Children," in scope, inventiveness and ambition.
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