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‖ Bildungsroman|ˈbɪldʊŋzrəʊˌmɑːn|
[G., f. bildung education + roman novel.]
A novel that has as its main theme the formative years or spiritual education of one person (a type of novel traditional in German literature). Hence Bildungs(roman)-hero, the main character in such a novel.
1910Encycl. Brit. XII. 185/1 Its flashes of intuitive criticism and its weighty apothegms add to its value as a Bildungsroman in the best sense of that word. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Sept. iii/1 The story is then a kind of Bildungsroman. 1956C. Wilson Outsider iii. 51 The Bildungsroman is a sort of laboratory in which the hero conducts an experiment in living. 1962Listener 3 May 778/1 The Bildungs-heroes lead in a fairly straight line from Simplicissimus to the Ks of Kafka. Ibid. 778/2 Musil's heroes..are all Bildungsroman-heroes. |