This book is a bildungsroman.
Source: tatoeba (1531925)
Bildungsroman
//ˈbɪl.dʊŋzˌɹoʊ.mən//
Synonyms for "bildungsroman" (5 found)
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Translations
16 translations across 11 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 成長小説 /成长小说 noun (a type of novel)
- 教育小說 /教育小说 noun (a type of novel)
- 教養小説 /教养小说 noun (a type of novel)
Danish
1 entries- dannelsesroman noun (a type of novel)
Finnish
1 entries- kehitysromaani noun (a type of novel)
French
2 entries- bildungsroman noun (a type of novel)
- roman d'apprentissage noun (a type of novel)
German
1 entries- Bildungsroman noun (a type of novel)
Hungarian
1 entries- fejlődésregény noun (a type of novel)
Japanese
2 entries- ビルドゥングスロマーン noun (a type of novel)
- 教養小説 noun (a type of novel)
Marathi
1 entries- बिल्डुंग्जरोमान noun (a type of novel)
Spanish
2 entries- novela de aprendizaje noun (a type of novel)
- novela de formación noun (a type of novel)
Swedish
1 entries- bildningsroman noun (a type of novel)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bildungsroman noun (a type of novel)
Sample sentences
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Tom is reading a Bildungsroman.
Source: tatoeba (8115152)
English speakers are more hospitable to fiction in translation, and yet when was the last time you heard someone mention “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” or “Elective Affinities,” Goethe’s long fictions? 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.
Source: wiktionary
Goethe's honorific assignment to the vanguard of a uniquely German novelistic tradition of the bildungsroman simultaneously places him outside the mainstream of the development of the novel.
Source: wiktionary
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