How to pronounce“bildungsroman”in English
What this says to us is that McCarthy has built the structure of the narrative along the familiar line of the
Bildungsroman, the novel of a boy growing into a man. It's hard to miss this when
that's the character's only name, and it changes in the middle. This is a fairly obvious gesture towards that very well-known narrative structure.
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Definitions of “bildungsroman”
A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
“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.”
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