Penelope is closer in sensibility to an anodyne sitcom than a precocious bildungsroman. |
But to see in Knausgaard's epic bildungsroman the evil of banality is to miss the point. |
A magisterially written war bildungsroman, it narrated the coming-of-age of an aristocratic boy in occupied Veneto after the 1917 Battle of Caporetto. |
Do genres have typical scripts, such as rescue for the adventure novel, or going to school for the Bildungsroman, or seduction for the romance? |
Jackie French has successfully combined a saga of survival with a centuries old coming of age bildungsroman. |
The later version is a classic bildungsroman. |