Künstlerroman

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A Künstlerroman (German: "artist's novel") is a specific sub-genre 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.

Famous German-language Künstlerromane include:

• Hermann Hesse's Demian and Klingsors letzter Sommer
• Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Doktor Faustus

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
• Patrick White's The Vivisector
• Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh
• Art Spiegelman's Maus
• Henry James's Roderick Hudson

Less famous, but stylistically remarkable English-language Künstlerromane include:

• Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books consists of four books arranged in the order 3, 1, 2, 4; book 1 and 2 constituting a Künstlerroman
• In John Dos Passos' U.S.A. trilogy, the Camera Eye sections add up to a modernist autobiographical Künstlerroman.
• John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of short stories that are often read as a postmodernist Künstlerroman.

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