Künstlerroman
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A Künstlerroman (/ˈkʏnstlɐ.roˌmaːn/, German: "artist's novel") is a kind of Bildungsroman; it is a novel about an artist's growth to maturity. Such novels often depict the struggles of a sensitive youth against the values of a bourgeois society of his or her time.
The following are famous English-language Künstlerromane:
- Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
- D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
- W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage
- Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel
- Charles Dickens' David Copperfield
- Irving Stone's The Agony and the Ecstasy
- Willa Cather's Song of the Lark
- Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness
- George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying
- Richard Wright's Black Boy
- Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye
- Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev
However, John Barth's short story "Lost in the Funhouse" is often read as a postmodernist Künstlerroman.
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